ASSIMILATION

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Noun

assimilation (countable and uncountable, plural assimilations)

1. The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. quotations ▼
2. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue. quotations ▼
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. quotations ▼
5. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Antonyms

• dissimilation

Derived terms

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

other terms derived from "assimilation"

• benevolent assimilation
• language assimilation

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