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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.
contemporary examples

-ssembling a nice private data set is a huge amount of work.
why don’t more social scientists share their data? megan mcardle april 17, 2013

now, stimpson spends an average of two to three hours -ssembling each photograph in a tiny, dark room of his west midlands home.
cl-ssic photography in lego isabel wilkinson august 26, 2009

think of -ssembling your knives as putting together a good home-entertainment center.
the perfect use for deadly weapons chad ward july 20, 2009

a model of modernity, happerton struggles to create himself, -ssembling an ident-ty wholecloth.
must read fiction: ‘prague fatale,’ ‘derby day’ and more malcolm forbes, hillary kelly, mythili rao may 8, 2012

at the same time, other agents were -ssembling a profile of dyk-s.
alabama hostage standoff: jimmy lee dyk-s seized boy to gain attention michael daly february 5, 2013

historical examples

or from what necessity did the son of atreus, -ssembling an army, lead it hither?
the iliad of homer (1873) homer

the -ssembling of the crew of a merchantman, in that day, was a melancholy sight.
ned myers james fenimore cooper

they were charged with -ssembling in troops in the counties of warwick and worcester, breaking into stables and seizing horses.
what gunpowder plot was samuel rawson gardiner

as they were -ssembling for breakfast on this morning, arthur came in.
the channings mrs. henry wood

outside the engine-house, people carrying lanterns were -ssembling, swearing, and shouting for the keys.
skipper worse alexander lange kielland

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.