Meaning : The state of being assimilated. People of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family.

Meaning : The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another.

Meaning : The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion.

Meaning : A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound.

Meaning : The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

Meaning : In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance.