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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.
a jump in which the dancer throws one leg up, springs off the other, and lands with both feet together.
contemporary examples

an editorial in the (left-wing) toronto star -ssembles the evidence that toronto’s (kinda-right-wing) mayor rob ford is a drunk.
how rob ford’s drinking affects his work david frum march 26, 2013

i also look forward to the motley crew of orphans joan -ssembles at her 35–40-seat table each year.
my thanksgiving with joan rivers paula froelich november 23, 2012

historical examples

the chief of the barbarous saxons -ssembles his priests and wise men to ascertain if they will become christians.
the bird jules michelet

now it -ssembles the blossoms of a whole long year to bewilder and allure.
the spenders harry leon wilson

it -ssembles its elements somewhat by chance and st-tches together the bits of our life; it ends only in beginnings, in attempts.
essay on the creative imagination th. ribot

the halictus knows this well and -ssembles in her numbers that she may work all the better.
bramble-bees and others j. henri fabre

the english parliament does not consult with the sovereign when it -ssembles to hear the address from the throne.
congressional government woodrow wilson

he -ssembles the fathers of goa by night, and upon what account.
the works of john dryden, volume xvi. (of 18) john dryden

some chief, who is generally at the same time what is called a “medicine man,” -ssembles the community.
the adventures of captain bonneville washington irving

it -ssembles and sets forth what had been perpetrated up to the time when it was written.
a straight deal owen wister

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.