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noting an artificial gem formed of two or more parts, as a doublet or triplet, at least one of which is a true gemstone.
to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
to put or fit together; put together the parts of:
to -ssemble information for a report; to -ssemble a toy from a kit.
computers. (def 4).
to come together; gather; meet:
we -ssembled in the auditorium.
contemporary examples

libman afterwards spoke to the -ssembled press about his pal.
rocker lenny kravitz’s namesake receives medal of honor michael daly march 18, 2014

the company designed and -ssembled the device from the hardware on up, opening a factory in burgundy for its production.
qooq: a tablet for the messy cook katie baker december 22, 2012

in the spring of 1999, armstrong -ssembled his inner circle at his french villa in nice to map out the plan for the tour.
lance armstrong’s teammate tells all: ‘the secret race’ by tyler hamilton the daily beast september 7, 2012

there was stone-cold silence from the dozen other -ssembled democrats—a reaction that lieberman found “very troubling.”
joe lieberman’s slow-motion divorce from the democratic party howard kurtz july 17, 2012

he did not even lead the -ssembled through a moment of silence.
love versus the ‘liberal gulag’ james poulos april 7, 2014

historical examples

an army was organized; weapons and equipment were -ssembled.
the white invaders raymond king c-mmings

hundreds of men and women, all well clothed, were -ssembled on the sh-r- to receive them.
captain cook w.h.g. kingston

one evening, when a party was -ssembled, one of them dropped a shilling.
stories of animal sagacity w.h.g. kingston

the leaders, after supper, -ssembled at the ruins of the tower.
the science of fairy tales edwin sidney hartland

presently they were all -ssembled, and the head appeared upon his rostrum.
the lighter side of school life ian hay

verb
to come or bring together; collect or congregate
to fit or join together (the parts of something, such as a machine): to -ssemble the parts of a kit
to run (a computer program) that converts a set of symbolic data, usually in the form of specific single-step instructions, into machine language
noun
(ballet) a sideways leap in which the feet come together in the air in preparation for landing
v.

earlly 14c., transitive and intransitive, from old french -ssembler “come together, join, unite; gather” (11c.), from latin -ssimulare “to make like, liken, compare; copy, imitate; feign, pretend,” later “to gather together,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + simulare “to make like” (see simulation). in middle english and in old french it also was a euphemism for “to couple s-xually.” meaning “to put parts together” in manufacturing is from 1852. related: -ssembled; -ssembling. -ssemble together is redundant.