(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
(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.
“This bright-eyed girl will have a greater chance of assimilation in her new country.”
“It is both a nutrient and a tonic in that it may not only be able to give itself for assimilation into the body, but may also help to cause other substances to be thus taken up as nutrients.”
“But assimilation and acculturation usually mean the erosion of the cultural and social life of the immigrant group.”
“She also treats indiciously the familiar topic of assimulation and the ambiguities and conflicts that it engendered among the between children and their parents.”