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Word: assimilation
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Meaning:
Noun:
- by extension The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- 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.
- cultural studies The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- The metabolic conversion of nutriments into tissue.
Source: Wiktionary
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