assimilation   (TTS Sound)

The noun assimilation has 6 senses

• assimilation -- (the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family)


• assimilation, absorption -- (the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another)


• assimilation, absorption -- (the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion)


• assimilation -- (a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound)


• acculturation, assimilation -- (the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure)


• assimilation -- (in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance)