assimilation
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Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin assimilatio.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
assimilation (plural assimilations)
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
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1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,[1]:
- --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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1996 January 26, Bertha Husband, “Double Identity”, Chicago Reader:
- His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.
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- The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
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1908, Washington Gladden, The Church and Modern Life[2]:
- We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
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- (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- (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.
- (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
Translations[edit]
act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated
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The metabolic conversion of nutriments
(phonology) sound change process by which two segments become more alike
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