Assimilation

Language: English
Pronunciation: as-sim-il-a-tion
Part of Speech: noun

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The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

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

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

"the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion"

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

"the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure"

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

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