assimilation
See also: Assimilation
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]assimilation (countable and uncountable, plural assimilations)
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- 1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,[1]:
- --France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.
- 1996 January 26, Bertha Husband, “Double Identity”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.
- The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
- 1908, Washington Gladden, The Church and Modern Life[3]:
- We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
- (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.
- 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 59:
- Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.
- (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- (phonology): regressive assimilation, anticipatory assimilation, progressive assimilation, perseverative assimilation
other terms derived from "assimilation"
Translations
[edit]act or state
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metabolic conversion
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absorption of new ideas
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phonology: sound change process
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adoption of dominant culture
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]assimilation c (singular definite assimilationen, plural indefinite assimilationer)
- assimilation
- (linguistics) assimilation
- (sociology) assimilation
Declension
[edit]Declension of assimilation
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | assimilation | assimilationen | assimilationer | assimilationerne |
| genitive | assimilations | assimilationens | assimilationers | assimilationernes |
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (sociology): pluralistisk integration, segregation
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]assimilation f (plural assimilations)
- (phonology) assimilation
- Antonym: dissimilation
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “assimilation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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