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Assimilation

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Noun

1. assimilation

the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

2. absorption, assimilation

the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

3. absorption, assimilation

the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

4. assimilation

a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

5. acculturation, assimilation

the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

6. assimilation

in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Assimilation

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noun
an assimilating or being assimilated
; specif.,
a. 
the cultural absorption of a minority group into the main cultural body
b.  Linguistics
a process in which a sound, influenced by a neighboring sound, tends to become like it in articulation
the (n) in “in-” meaning “not” becomes (l) by assimilation in forming “illiterate”
c.  Physiology
the change of digested food into the protoplasm of an animal; also, the absorption and incorporation of nutritive elements by plants, as in photosynthesis

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Assimilation

see synonyms of assimilation
n.
1.
a. The act or process of assimilating.
b. The state of being assimilated.
2. Physiology The conversion of nutriments into living tissue; constructive metabolism.
3. Linguistics The process by which a sound is modified so that it becomes similar or identical to an adjacent or nearby sound. For example, the prefix in- becomes im- in impossible by assimilation to the labial p of possible.
4. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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