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Assimilation
/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
📖 Definitions of "Assimilation"
noun
- 1
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- 2
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- 3
(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- 4
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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