assimilations
Meaning
plural of assimilation
assimilation
- (countable, uncountable) The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- (countable, uncountable) The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- (broadly, countable, uncountable) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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