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Type Words
Synonyms acculturation
Type of education
Derivation assimilate
Type Words
Synonyms absorption
Type of social process
Has types westernization, americanization, anglicisation, anglicization, europeanisation, europeanization, americanisation, westernisation
Derivation assimilate
Type Words
Synonyms absorption
Type of organic process, biological process
Has types anabolism, malabsorption, constructive metabolism
Derivation assimilate
Type Words
Type of linguistic process
Derivation assimilate
Type Words
Type of developmental learning
Derivation assimilate
Type Words
Type of relationship
Derivation assimilate

Examples of assimilation

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It's not often that Americans hear tales of assimilation set in other countries.
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They move from exclusion and suspicion toward assimilation and good citizenship.
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In Antony and Cleopatra, assimilation is not a demand but an irresistible force.
From the independent.co.uk
Guo shows off an impressive assimilation of film-noir moodiness and jazzy swing.
From the nytimes.com
Whatever the case, they have obviously managed to avoid wide-scale assimilation.
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This assimilation tissue is the primary location of photosynthesis in the plant.
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The potlatch was also seen as a key target in assimilation policies and agendas.
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Only when the lesson of racial estrangement is learned is assimilation complete.
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Perhaps assimilation is a function of society being open to those of other races.
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More examples
  • The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
  • The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
  • The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
  • A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
  • Acculturation: the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
  • In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
  • Biological assimilation, or bioassimilation, involves one of two different processes to supply animal cells with nutrients. The first is the process of absorbing vitamins, minerals, and other chemicals from food within the gastrointestinal tract. ...
  • Assimilation was one ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries. In contrast with British imperial policy, the French taught their subjects that, by adopting French language and culture, they could eventually become French. ...
  • Assimilation is a common phonological process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary). ...