assimilation

See also: Assimilation

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin assimilatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

assimilation (plural assimilations)

1. The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
   • 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.

   • 1996 January 26, Bertha Husband, “Double Identity”, in Chicago Reader^[2]:

     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.

2. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
   • 1908, Washington Gladden, The Church and Modern Life^[3]:

     We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.

3. (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
4. (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.
5. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Translations

act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated

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

  Mandarin: 同化 (zh) (tónghuà)

• German: Angleichung f, Assimilation (de) f
• Indonesian: asimilasi (id)
• Japanese: 同化 (ja) (どうか, dōka)
• Korean: 동화 (ko) (donghwa) (同化 (ko))

• 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)

The metabolic conversion of nutriments

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

  Mandarin: 同化 (zh) (tónghuà)

• Finnish: ruoansulatus (fi)
• German: Angleichung f, Assimilation (de) f
• Japanese: 同化 (ja) (どうか, dōka)

• Korean: 동화 (ko) (donghwa) (同化 (ko))
• Portuguese: assimilação (pt) f
• Russian: усвое́ние (ru) n (usvojénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: asimilácija (sh) f
• Tagalog: paghiangay

(phonology) sound change process by which two segments become more alike

• Arabic: مُمَاثَلَة‎ f (mumāṯala), تَمَاثُل‎ m (tamāṯul)
• Armenian: առնմանություն (hy) (aṙnmanutʿyun)
• Finnish: assimilaatio (fi)
• French: assimilation (fr) f
• German: Assimilation (de) f

• Greek: προσομοίωση (el) (prosomoíosi)
• Irish: comhshamhlú m
• Macedonian: едначење по звучност n (ednáčenje po zvúčnost)
• Portuguese: assimilação (pt) f
• Russian: ассимиля́ция (ru) f (assimiljácija)

Related terms

• assimilate

Anagrams

• Islamisation

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French

Etymology

assimiler +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

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Noun

assimilation f (plural assimilations)

1. (phonology) assimilation

Derived terms

• assimilation progressive
• assimilation régressive

Further reading

• “assimilation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).