say it: uh-SAHY-ning
assigning is a noun meaning "the act of distributing something to designated places or persons". It carries one recorded sense.
the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
“the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for assigning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.