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noun
1) The act or process of assimilating, i.e., of making one being, person, or thing similar to another; the state of being so assimilated.
“It is as well the instinct as duty of our nature to aspire to an assimilation with God, even the most laudable and generous ambition.” - Decay of Piety
2) The process by which an animal or a plant converts into textures, identical with its own, such foreign molecules as are fitted for its nutriment.
“These two processes, excretion, or the expulsion of effete particles, and assimilation of substances from without, are necessarily mutually dependent.” - Todd & Bowman
[Latin assimulatio = likeness, similarity.]
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