Meaning & use
Subassembly
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A unit made up of several components that is assembled separately before being incorporated into a larger, finished product.
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Workers on the line tested each engine subassembly before it was bolted into the chassis.
The circuit board is a subassembly that gets installed inside the final device.
A note on using this word
Common in manufacturing and engineering, where breaking a product into subassemblies allows parallel assembly and easier quality checks.
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modulecomponent unit
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