assimilation
/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/ nom C2En français : assimilation
- 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.
Pluriel assimilations
Dans la bibliothèque
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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