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assimilation

/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/

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noun

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

Examples :

"The assimilation of new information into my understanding of physics was challenging. "

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The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

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"The child's rapid growth spurt was due to the efficient assimilation of nutrients from her healthy diet. "

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

Examples :

"The student's assimilation of new math concepts helped her understand the more complex problems. "

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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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"The assimilation of the "k" sound in "backwards" makes it sound almost like "ba'wards". "

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(cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

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"The new student's assimilation into the school's social group was surprisingly fast. "

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