English
Pronunciation
rhymes|eɪ��n
Noun
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- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- The metabolic conversion of nutriments into tissue.
- context|by extension The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- linguistics The modification of a sound such that it becomes similar to an adjacent sound.
- The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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