appointment vs assignment

appointment

noun
  • The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed 

  • An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college. 

  • An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement. 

  • Equipment, furniture. 

  • Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. 

  • Decree; direction; established order or constitution. 

  • The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court. 

  • The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust 

  • The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 

assignment

noun
  • The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. 

  • A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another. 

  • A document that effects this transfer. 

  • An assigned task. 

  • The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex. 

  • An operation that assigns a value to a variable. 

  • A position to which someone is assigned. 

  • A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. 

  • The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. 

How often have the words appointment and assignment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )