assimilation
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
assimilation
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
(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. - (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
- German: Angleichung, Assimilation
- Portuguese: assimilação
- Russian: ассимиля́ция
- Spanish: asimilación
- German: Angleichung, Assimilation
- Portuguese: assimilação
- Russian: усвое́ние
- French: assimilation
- German: Assimilation
- Portuguese: assimilação
- Russian: ассимиля́ция
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