English Dictionary

assimilation

/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/

noun

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. / The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue. / (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

Assimilation is the process of absorbing new information into existing knowledge.

意味（1）

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

--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.

意味（2）

The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.

意味（3）

(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

意味（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.

Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.

意味（5）

(sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.