Sentence:  In March , 1961 , representatives of the national laboratories of Australia , Canada , The Netherlands , United Kingdom , U. S. S. R. , United States , and West Germany , <WSD>met</WSD> at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 * * f . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  get together socially or for a specific purpose