assimilation.
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
Meaning & usage
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.