sub-assembly

1. 1.

   a unit assembled separately but designed to fit with other units in a manufactured product

   Broaderassembly

Questions about sub-assembly

What does sub-assembly mean?

sub-assembly means "a unit assembled separately but designed to fit with other units in a manufactured product".

How many syllables are in sub-assembly?

sub-assembly has 4 syllables and divides as su-b-as-sem-bly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is sub-assembly a common word?

sub-assembly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.