"assimilation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-assimilation.wav Forms: assimilations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ML.|assimilatio}} Medieval Latin assimilatio, {{surf|en|assimilate|-ion}} By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} assimilation (countable and uncountable, plural assimilations)
  1. The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act or state): ἀφομοίωσις (aphomoíōsis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), асимилация (asimilacija) (Bulgarian), поглъщане (poglǎštane) (Bulgarian), assimilació [feminine] (Catalan), 同化 (tónghuà) (Chinese Mandarin), assimilering [common-gender] (Danish), imeyttäminen (Finnish), omaksuminen (Finnish), sisäistäminen (Finnish), sulauttaminen (Finnish), rinnastaminen (Finnish), assimilaatio (english: assimilation) (Finnish), imeytyminen (Finnish), sulautuminen (Finnish), rinnastuminen (Finnish), assimiloituminen (english: being assimilated) (Finnish), asimilación [feminine] (Galician), Angleichung [feminine] (German), Assimilation [feminine] (German), αφομοίωση (afomoíosi) [feminine] (Greek), asimilasi (Indonesian), 同化 (dōka) (alt: どうか) (Japanese), 동화 (donghwa) (alt: 同化) (Korean), assimilering [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), assimilering [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), assimilacion [feminine] (Occitan), asymilacja [feminine] (Polish), assimilação [feminine] (Portuguese), asimilare [feminine] (Romanian), asimilație [feminine] (Romanian), ассимиля́ция (assimiljácija) [feminine] (Russian), asimilácija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), asimilación [feminine] (Spanish), asimilasyon (Turkish), đồng hoá (alt: 同化) (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-assimilation-en-noun-TpPHq58V Disambiguation of 'act or state': 100 0 0 0 0
  2. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (metabolic conversion): поглъщане (poglǎštane) (Bulgarian), усвояване (usvojavane) (Bulgarian), 同化 (tónghuà) (Chinese Mandarin), ruoansulatus (Finnish), Angleichung [feminine] (German), Assimilation [feminine] (German), αφομοίωση (afomoíosi) [feminine] (Greek), asimilasi (Indonesian), 同化 (dōka) (alt: どうか) (Japanese), 동화 (donghwa) (alt: 同化) (Korean), asymilacja [feminine] (Polish), assimilação [feminine] (Portuguese), усвое́ние (usvojénije) [neuter] (Russian), asimilácija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), paghiangay (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-assimilation-en-noun-~BsXRKV8 Disambiguation of 'metabolic conversion': 2 91 1 3 3
  3. (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable Translations (absorption of new ideas): omaksuminen (Finnish), αφομοίωση (afomoíosi) [feminine] (Greek), asymilacja [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-assimilation-en-noun-xoZacZ89 Disambiguation of 'absorption of new ideas': 7 3 69 9 12
  4. (phonology) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Phonology Translations (phonology: sound change process): asimilim [masculine] (Albanian), përngjashmim [masculine] (Albanian), مُمَاثَلَة (mumāṯala) [feminine] (Arabic), تَمَاثُل (tamāṯul) [masculine] (Arabic), առնմանություն (aṙnmanutʻyun) (Armenian), uyuşma (Azerbaijani), heñveladur [masculine] (Breton), assimilaatio (Finnish), assimilation [feminine] (French), ასიმილაცია (asimilacia) (Georgian), დამსგავსება (damsgavseba) (Georgian), Assimilation [feminine] (German), αφομοίωση (afomoíosi) [feminine] (Greek), hasonulás (Hungarian), asimilasi (Indonesian), comhshamhlú [masculine] (Irish), 동화 (donghwa) (alt: 同化) (Korean), едначење по звучност (ednačenje po zvučnost) [neuter] (Macedonian), समीभवन (samībhavan) (Nepali), همگونی (Persian), asymilacja [feminine] (Polish), upodobnienie [neuter] (Polish), assimilação [feminine] (Portuguese), ассимиля́ция (assimiljácija) [feminine] (Russian), đồng hoá (alt: 同化) (Vietnamese), cymhathiad [masculine] (Welsh), cymathiad [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-assimilation-en-noun-en:phonology Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences Disambiguation of 'phonology: sound change process': 11 3 3 61 22
  5. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sociology Translations (adoption of dominant culture): assimilation [common-gender] (Danish), omaksuminen (Finnish), αφομοίωση (afomoíosi) [feminine] (Greek), asszimiláció (Hungarian), asimilasi (Indonesian), asymilacja [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-assimilation-en-noun-L6SHxQ9r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Albanian translations, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Breton translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Nepali translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 9 8 26 37 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 19 10 9 25 36 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 23 5 4 28 40 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 1 4 4 19 9 8 23 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 2 2 19 9 8 24 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Albanian translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 16 11 8 23 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 18 8 7 26 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Breton translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 18 8 7 26 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 19 9 8 25 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 20 6 6 28 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 17 8 7 27 42 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 19 9 8 23 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 18 8 7 29 38 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 18 8 7 28 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 16 10 6 20 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 16 9 6 27 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 19 8 7 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 20 8 7 24 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 18 8 7 25 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 17 12 7 27 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Nepali translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 17 8 7 23 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 19 7 7 24 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 19 9 8 25 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 21 11 7 27 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 17 8 7 28 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 24 8 7 22 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 18 8 7 29 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 19 8 7 27 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 19 9 8 26 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 18 8 7 30 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 19 9 8 25 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 20 9 8 23 40 Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology Disambiguation of 'adoption of dominant culture': 5 6 2 8 80
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: acculturation, liaison, mutation, rendaku, sandhi

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "lang": "Vietnamese",
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          "text": "We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.",
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          "roman": "poglǎštane",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "sense": "metabolic conversion",
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          "sense": "metabolic conversion",
          "word": "ruoansulatus"
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    },
    {
      "alt": "同化",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "donghwa",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "word": "동화"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ednačenje po zvučnost",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "едначење по звучност"
    },
    {
      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "samībhavan",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "word": "समीभवन"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "word": "همگونی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asymilacja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "upodobnienie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "assimilação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "assimiljácija",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ассимиля́ция"
    },
    {
      "alt": "同化",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "word": "đồng hoá"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cymhathiad"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "phonology: sound change process",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cymathiad"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "adoption of dominant culture",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "assimilation"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "adoption of dominant culture",
      "word": "omaksuminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "afomoíosi",
      "sense": "adoption of dominant culture",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αφομοίωση"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "adoption of dominant culture",
      "word": "asszimiláció"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "adoption of dominant culture",
      "word": "asimilasi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "adoption of dominant culture",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asymilacja"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "assimilation"
  ],
  "word": "assimilation"
}

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