Assimilation
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noun
(1) In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
(2) The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
(3) A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
(4) The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
(5) The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
(6) 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
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
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- The metabolic conversion of nutriments into tissue.
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- The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- 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.
- The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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