assimilation
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
- definition the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
- definition the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
- definition a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
- definition the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
- definition in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance