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assimilation
UK /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
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US /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
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- (noun) The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- (noun) The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- (noun) (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
Meanings
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noun The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
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noun The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
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noun (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
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noun 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.
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noun (cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
Summary
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- (noun) The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- (noun) The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- (noun) (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
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