assimilation
has definitions from the fields of sociology,psychology,education,biology,medicine,linguistics
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[ noun ] (sociology) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
Synonyms Used in print (Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the...)( Co-optation means to choose by joint action in_order to fill a vacancy ; it can also mean the assimilation of centers of power from an environment in_order to strengthen an organization . ) Related terms group_action social_process Europeanization westernization Americanization absorb |
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[ noun ] (biology,medicine) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
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[ noun ] (psychology,education) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
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[ noun ] (linguistics) a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
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[ noun ] the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
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[ noun ] (psychology,education) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
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