What is the meaning of coming together?

noun

• The social act of assembling for some common purpose.
  • usage: "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day"
  • synonyms: meeting
• The act of joining together as one.
  • usage: "the merging of the two groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds"
  • synonyms: merging, meeting

verb

• Come together, as if in an embrace.
  • usage: "Her arms closed around her long lost relative"
  • synonyms: close, come together