assimilation
/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/ sustantivo C2En español: asimilación
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- 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. · After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.
Plural assimilations
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This crucial linguistic assimilation extended to geographical features and native vegetation, firmly anchoring the imported English language to the Australian landscape.
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