# assimilation
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate +‎ -ion.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

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,‎:--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: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: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.
    After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.

#### Antonyms

* dissimilation

#### Derived terms

* (phonology): regressive assimilation, anticipatory assimilation, progressive assimilation, perseverative assimilation
* antiassimilation
* assimilational
* assimilationism
* assimilationist
* benevolent assimilation
* bioassimilation
* disassimilation
* language assimilation
* left-to-right assimilation
* malassimilation
* nonassimilation
* obliterative assimilation
* photoassimilation
* reassimilation
* right-to-left assimilation
* Yorkshire assimilation

#### See also

* acculturation
* liaison
* mutation
* rendaku
* sandhi

### Anagrams

* Islamisation

## Danish
### Noun

assimilation c (singular definite assimilationen, plural indefinite assimilationer)
* assimilation
* (linguistics) assimilation
* (sociology) assimilation

#### Coordinate terms

* (sociology): pluralistisk integration, segregation

#### Derived terms

* tvangsassimilation

### Further reading

* “assimilation” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

From assimiler +‎ -ation.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.si.mi.la.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

assimilation f (plural assimilations)
* (phonology) assimilation
    Antonym: dissimilation

#### Derived terms

* assimilation progressive
* assimilation régressive

### Further reading

* “assimilation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.