assimilation
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
Other meanings
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
Related words
- regressive assimilation
- anticipatory assimilation
- progressive assimilation
- perseverative assimilation
- Yorkshire assimilation
- benevolent assimilation
- language assimilation
- left-to-right assimilation
- obliterative assimilation
- right-to-left assimilation
- antiassimilation
- assimilational
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