assimilation

CEFRC1

/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
The process of absorbing ideas or becoming part of another group.
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noun
Extra detail
The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
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.

In context

After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.
--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.
His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.

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--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.
1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,
His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.
1996 January 26, Bertha Husband, “Double Identity”, in Chicago Reader
We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
1908, Washington Gladden, The Church and Modern Life
Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.
2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 59
Assimilation was one of the words they used for Indians becoming white in order to survive, in order that they might not be killed for being Indians.
2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 55

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.