Dictionary Check: assimilation

the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance