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assimilation

noun

1 assimilation

The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family.

Roget 23: agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony; concord etc. 714; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding.    conformity etc. ... show more

Roget 465b: identification, recognition, diagnosis, match; apperception, assimilation; dereplication; classification; memory etc. 505; interpretation etc. 522; ... show more

Roget 144: conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation; evolution, sea change; change of state; assumption; naturalization; transportation; development [Biol.], developing.    [photography] ... show more

Roget 19: imitation; copying etc. v.; transcription; repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; ... show more

Roget 161: production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; ... show more

2 assimilation

The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another.

synonym: absorption.

Polish: asymilacja

3 assimilation

The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion.

synonym: absorption.

Dutch: assimilatie
Polish: przyswajanie, asymilacja

4 assimilation

A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound.

Dutch: assimilatie
Polish: asymilacja fonetyczna, upodobnienie, asymilacja

5 assimilation

The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

synonym: acculturation.

6 assimilation

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance.


Moby thesaurus: Americanization, Anschluss, ablation, about-face, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, accommodation, accordance, acculturation, adaptation, addition, adjustment, admissibility, admission, adoption, adsorbent, adsorption, affiliation, agglomeration ... show more.

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