assimilations

Meanings

Noun

• 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
• 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
• plural of assimilation

Synonyms

absorption, acculturation, assimilation