Assimilation — meaning in English
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English meaning
- assimilation noun The process of taking in and absorbing something, whether ideas, nutrients, or a group of people into a wider culture.
Senses
Assimilation is used for these senses in English:
- assimilation (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.
assimilation — full definition
- noun The process of taking in and absorbing something, whether ideas, nutrients, or a group of people into a wider culture.
- noun In linguistics, a sound change in which one speech sound becomes more like a neighboring sound.