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Noun: assimilation u`simu'leyshun- The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
- The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
- absorption - The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
- absorption - A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
- The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
- acculturation - In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
Derived forms: assimilations See also: assimilate Type of: biological process, developmental learning, education, linguistic process, organic process, relationship, social process Encyclopedia: Assimilation |