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/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
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The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
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The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
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Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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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.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: cultural studies
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.
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in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
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Broader terms: developmental learning
the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
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Synonyms: acculturation
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Broader terms: education
a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
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Broader terms: linguistic process
the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
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Synonyms: absorption
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Broader terms: organic process, biological process
Narrower terms: anabolism, constructive metabolism, malabsorption
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
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Synonyms: absorption
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Broader terms: social process
Narrower terms: Americanization, Americanisation, Anglicization, Anglicisation, Europeanization, Europeanisation, Westernization, Westernisation
the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
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Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.
Across languages
Translations 98 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian :
асимилация
(asimilacija)
— act or state
Bulgarian :
поглъщане
(poglǎštane)
— act or state
Catalan :
assimilació
— act or state
Chinese Mandarin :
同化
(tónghuà)
— act or state
Chinese Mandarin :
吸收
(xīshōu)
— act or state
Danish :
assimilering
— act or state
Finnish :
imeyttäminen
— act or state
Finnish :
omaksuminen
— act or state
Finnish :
sisäistäminen
— act or state
Finnish :
sulauttaminen
— act or state
Finnish :
rinnastaminen
— act or state
Finnish :
assimilaatio
— act or state
Finnish :
imeytyminen
— act or state
Finnish :
sulautuminen
— act or state
Finnish :
rinnastuminen
— act or state
Finnish :
assimiloituminen
— act or state
Galician :
asimilación
— act or state
German :
Angleichung
— act or state
German :
Assimilation
— act or state
Greek :
αφομοίωση
(afomoíosi)
— act or state
Ancient Greek :
ἀφομοίωσις
(aphomoíōsis)
— act or state
Indonesian :
asimilasi
— act or state
Japanese :
同化
(dōka)
— act or state
Korean :
동화
(donghwa)
— act or state
Norwegian Bokmål :
assimilering
— act or state
Norwegian Nynorsk :
assimilering
— act or state
Occitan :
assimilacion
— act or state
Polish :
asymilacja
— act or state
Portuguese :
assimilação
— act or state
Romanian :
asimilare
— act or state
Romanian :
asimilație
— act or state
Russian :
ассимиля́ция
(assimiljácija)
— act or state
Serbo-Croatian :
asimilácija
— act or state
Spanish :
asimilación
— act or state
Swedish :
assimilering
— act or state
Turkish :
asimilasyon
— act or state
Vietnamese :
đồng hoá
— act or state
Bulgarian :
поглъщане
(poglǎštane)
— metabolic conversion
Bulgarian :
усвояване
(usvojavane)
— metabolic conversion
Chinese Mandarin :
同化
(tónghuà)
— metabolic conversion
Chinese Mandarin :
同化作用
(tónghuà zuòyòng)
— metabolic conversion
Finnish :
ruoansulatus
— metabolic conversion
German :
Angleichung
— metabolic conversion
German :
Assimilation
— metabolic conversion
Greek :
αφομοίωση
(afomoíosi)
— metabolic conversion
Indonesian :
asimilasi
— metabolic conversion
Japanese :
同化
(dōka)
— metabolic conversion
Korean :
동화
(donghwa)
— metabolic conversion
Polish :
asymilacja
— metabolic conversion
Portuguese :
assimilação
— metabolic conversion
Russian :
усвое́ние
(usvojénije)
— metabolic conversion
Serbo-Croatian :
asimilácija
— metabolic conversion
Tagalog :
paghiangay
— metabolic conversion
Chinese Mandarin :
認知同化 /认知同化
(rènzhī tónghuà)
— absorption of new ideas
Chinese Mandarin :
吸收新知
(xīshōu xīnzhī)
— absorption of new ideas
Finnish :
omaksuminen
— absorption of new ideas
Greek :
αφομοίωση
(afomoíosi)
— absorption of new ideas
Polish :
asymilacja
— absorption of new ideas
Albanian :
asimilim
— phonology: sound change process
Albanian :
përngjashmim
— phonology: sound change process
Arabic :
مُمَاثَلَة
(mumāṯala)
— phonology: sound change process
Arabic :
تَمَاثُل
(tamāṯul)
— phonology: sound change process
Armenian :
առնմանություն
(aṙnmanutʻyun)
— phonology: sound change process
Azerbaijani :
uyuşma
— phonology: sound change process
Breton :
heñveladur
— phonology: sound change process
Chinese Mandarin :
語音同化 /语音同化
(yǔyīn tónghuà)
— phonology: sound change process
Chinese Mandarin :
同化作用
(tónghuà zuòyòng)
— phonology: sound change process
Finnish :
assimilaatio
— phonology: sound change process
French :
assimilation
— phonology: sound change process
Georgian :
ასიმილაცია
(asimilacia)
— phonology: sound change process
Georgian :
დამსგავსება
(damsgavseba)
— phonology: sound change process
German :
Assimilation
— phonology: sound change process
Greek :
αφομοίωση
(afomoíosi)
— phonology: sound change process
Hungarian :
hasonulás
— phonology: sound change process
Indonesian :
asimilasi
— phonology: sound change process
Irish :
comhshamhlú
— phonology: sound change process
Kazakh :
ықпал
(yqpal)
— phonology: sound change process
Kazakh :
ассимиляция
(assimiläsiä)
— phonology: sound change process
Korean :
동화
(donghwa)
— phonology: sound change process
Macedonian :
едначење по звучност
(ednačenje po zvučnost)
— phonology: sound change process
Nepali :
समीभवन
(samībhavan)
— phonology: sound change process
Persian :
همگونی
— phonology: sound change process
Polish :
asymilacja
— phonology: sound change process
Polish :
upodobnienie
— phonology: sound change process
Portuguese :
assimilação
— phonology: sound change process
Russian :
ассимиля́ция
(assimiljácija)
— phonology: sound change process
Vietnamese :
đồng hoá
— phonology: sound change process
Welsh :
cymhathiad
— phonology: sound change process
Welsh :
cymathiad
— phonology: sound change process
Chinese Mandarin :
文化同化
(wénhuà tónghuà)
— adoption of dominant culture
Chinese Mandarin :
社會同化 /社会同化
(shèhuì tónghuà)
— adoption of dominant culture
Danish :
assimilation
— adoption of dominant culture
Finnish :
omaksuminen
— adoption of dominant culture
Greek :
αφομοίωση
(afomoíosi)
— adoption of dominant culture
Hungarian :
asszimiláció
— adoption of dominant culture
Indonesian :
asimilasi
— adoption of dominant culture
Kazakh :
ықпал
(yqpal)
— adoption of dominant culture
Polish :
asymilacja
— adoption of dominant culture
