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