1 [no object] (of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose:a crowd had assembled outside the gates
[with object] cause (people or things) to gather together for a common purpose:he assembled the surviving members of the group for a tour
(usually as noun assembling) Entomology (of male moths) gather for mating in response to a pheromone released by a female.
2 [with object] fit together the separate component parts of (a machine or other object):my new machine is being assembled and my old one dismantled
3 [with object] Computing translate (a program) from a symbolic language into machine code:assemble the program and produce a file suitable to input to the simulator
