assimilation

See also: Assimilation

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin assimilatio.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

assimilation (plural assimilations)

1. The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
2. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
3. (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
5. (phonology) 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.
6. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Related terms

• assimilate

Translations

act or state

• Bulgarian: асимилация (bg) (asimilacija), поглъщане (bg) (poglǎštane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同化 (zh) (tónghuà)

• Finnish: imeyttäminen, omaksuminen, sisäistäminen, sulauttaminen, rinnastaminen, assimilaatio (assimilation); imeytyminen, sulautuminen, rinnastuminen, assimiloituminen (being assimilated)
• German: Angleichung f, Assimilation (de) f
• Greek: αφομοίωση (el) f (afomoíosi)

  Ancient: ἀφομοίωσις (grc) f (aphomoíōsis)

• Indonesian: asimilasi (id)
• Japanese: 同化 (ja) (どうか, dōka)
• Korean: 동화 (ko) (donghwa) (同化 (ko))
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• Polish: asymilacja f
• Portuguese: assimilação (pt) f
• Romanian: asimilare (ro) f, asimilație (ro) f
• Russian: ассимиля́ция (ru) f (assimiljácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: asimilácija (sh) f
• Spanish: asimilación (es) f
• Vietnamese: đồng hóa (同化)

metabolic conversion

• Bulgarian: поглъщане (bg) (poglǎštane), усвояване (bg) (usvojavane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同化 (zh) (tónghuà)

• Finnish: ruoansulatus (fi)
• German: Angleichung f, Assimilation (de) f
• Greek: αφομοίωση (el) f (afomoíosi)
• Japanese: 同化 (ja) (どうか, dōka)
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• Korean: 동화 (ko) (donghwa) (同化 (ko))
• Portuguese: assimilação (pt) f
• Russian: усвое́ние (ru) n (usvojénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: asimilácija (sh) f
• Tagalog: paghiangay

absorption of new ideas

• Finnish: omaksuminen
• Greek: αφομοίωση (el) f (afomoíosi)
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phonology: sound change process

• Arabic: مُمَاثَلَة f (mumāṯala), تَمَاثُل m (tamāṯul)
• Armenian: առնմանություն (hy) (aṙnmanutʻyun)
• Finnish: assimilaatio (fi)
• French: assimilation (fr) f
• German: Assimilation (de) f
• Greek: αφομοίωση (el) f (afomoíosi)
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• Irish: comhshamhlú m
• Macedonian: едначење по звучност n (ednáčenje po zvúčnost)
• Nepali: समीभवन (samībhavan)
• Portuguese: assimilação (pt) f
• Russian: ассимиля́ция (ru) f (assimiljácija)

adoption of dominant culture

• Finnish: omaksuminen
• Greek: αφομοίωση (el) f (afomoíosi)
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Anagrams

• Islamisation

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Danish

Noun

assimilation c (singular definite assimilationen, plural indefinite assimilationer)

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Declension

Declension of assimilation

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	assimilation	assimilationen	assimilationer	assimilationerne
genitive	assimilations	assimilationens	assimilationers	assimilationernes

Further reading

• “assimilation” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.si.mi.la.sjɔ̃/
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  Audio:

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Noun

assimilation f (plural assimilations)

1. (phonology) assimilation

   Antonym: dissimilation

Derived terms

• assimilation progressive
• assimilation régressive

Further reading

• “assimilation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.