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Assimilation

/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

📖 Definitions of "Assimilation"

noun
  1. 1

    The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

  2. 2

    The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

  3. 3

    (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

  4. 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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