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Assimilation

//əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən// noun

Noun

1
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. countable, uncountable
"--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes."
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in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance wordnet
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The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue. countable, uncountable
"We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested."
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the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure wordnet
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The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure. broadly, countable, uncountable

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a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound wordnet
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A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs. countable, uncountable
"Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging."
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the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion wordnet
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The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture. countable, uncountable
"After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish."
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the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another wordnet
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the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family wordnet

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.

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