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assimilation

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate +‎ -ion.

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assimilation (countable and uncountable, 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.
  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.
    • 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 59:
      Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.
  6. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
    After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.
    • 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 55:
      Assimilation was one of the words they used for Indians becoming white in order to survive, in order that they might not be killed for being Indians.
    • 2024 September 30, Michael Doran, “EXCEPTIONALISM AND ASSIMILATIONISM IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW”, in Stanford Law School‎[4], volume 20, number 2, page 269‎[5], archived from the original on 24 February 2025:
      I do not use those terms to describe the purpose or the effects of particular federal Indian law doctrines in promoting the assimilation of Indians and Indian tribes into non-Indian culture or the general American polity.

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Noun

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assimilation c (singular definite assimilationen, plural indefinite assimilationer)

  1. assimilation
  2. (linguistics) assimilation
  3. (sociology) assimilation

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Declension of assimilation
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative assimilation assimilationen assimilationer assimilationerne
genitive assimilations assimilationens assimilationers assimilationernes

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French

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Etymology

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    From assimiler +‎ -ation.

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    assimilation f (plural assimilations)

    1. (phonology) assimilation
      Antonym: dissimilation

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