Assimilation Definition

ə-sĭmə-lāshən
noun
An assimilating or being assimilated.
Webster's New World
The process by which a sound is modified so that it becomes similar or identical to an adjacent or nearby sound. For example, the prefix in- becomes im- in impossible by assimilation to the labial p of possible.
American Heritage
The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
American Heritage
The act or process of assimilating.
American Heritage Medicine
The state of being assimilated.
American Heritage Medicine
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Other Word Forms of Assimilation

Noun

Singular:
assimilation
Plural:
assimilations

Origin of Assimilation

  • From Medieval Latin assimilatio.

    From Wiktionary

Assimilation Sentence Examples

  • In these colonies the system of assimilation was carried to great lengths.

  • I shall assume that she has the normal child's capacity of assimilation and imitation.

  • Many minor anthropological differentiae can be distinguished among both the Great and the Little Russians, depending probably on the assimilation of various minor subdivisions of the Ural-Altaians.

  • Besides absorption, assimilation, conduction and protection there is another very important function for which provision has to be made in any plant-body of considerable size, especially when raised into the air, that of support.

  • We frequently find the expression used, the assimilation of carbon dioxide, or of nitrogen.

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Words Starting With

AASASS

Words Ending With

NONION

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assimilation

Words Starting With A and Ending With N

Starts With A & Ends With NStarts With AS & Ends With NStarts With A & Ends With ON

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12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With A12 Letter Words Ending With N