assimilation
Meaning of assimilation
noun
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- 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.
- (cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
Information about assimilation
- It is a name.
- The plural form of assimilation is: assimilations.
- Languages in which assimilation is used:
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Hyphenation of assimilation
as-sim-i-la-tion
- It consists of 5 syllables and 12 chars.
- assimilation is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
assimilation synonyms
Meaning absorption:
Meaning acculturation:
Translation of assimilation
- German: Assimilation
- Spanish: asimilación
- French: assimilation
- Italian: assimilazione
- Portuguese: assimilação
Words that rhyme with assimilation
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