assimilation

See also: Assimilation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. Synchronically analysable as assimilate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.
6. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Derived terms

• (phonology): regressive assimilation, anticipatory assimilation, progressive assimilation, perseverative assimilation

Translations

act or state

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

  Mandarin: 同化 (zh) (tónghuà)

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

  Ancient: ἀφομοίωσις f (aphomoíōsis)

• Indonesian: asimilasi (id)
• Japanese: 同化 (ja) (どうか, dōka)

• Korean: 동화 (ko) (donghwa) (同化 (ko))
• Polish: asymilacja (pl) 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)
• 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 (fi)

• Greek: αφομοίωση (el) f (afomoíosi)

phonology: sound change process

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

• Irish: comhshamhlú m
• Macedonian: едначење по звучност n (ednáčenje po zvúčnost)
• Nepali: समीभवन (samībhawana)
• Portuguese: assimilação (pt) f
• Russian: ассимиля́ция (ru) f (assimiljácija)

adoption of dominant culture

• Finnish: omaksuminen (fi)

• Greek: αφομοίωση (el) f (afomoíosi)

Anagrams

• Islamisation

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Danish

Noun

assimilation c (singular definite assimilationen, plural indefinite assimilationer)

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

Declension

Declension of assimilation

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

Coordinate terms

• (sociology): pluralistisk integration, segregation

Further reading

• “assimilation” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

assimiler +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.si.mi.la.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

assimilation f (plural assimilations)

1. (phonology) assimilation

   Antonym: dissimilation

Derived terms

• assimilation progressive
• assimilation régressive

Further reading

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