What is the meaning of assimilation?

noun

  • The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family.
  • The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another.
  • The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion.
  • A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound.
  • The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
  • In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance. .
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