assimilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: assimilations
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: --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.
ref: 1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,:
text: 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.
ref: 1996 January 26, Bertha Husband, “Double Identity”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
examples: text: We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
ref: 1908, Washington Gladden, The Church and Modern Life:
glosses: The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
glosses: The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
examples: text: Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 59:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.
text: Assimilation was one of the words they used for Indians becoming white in order to survive, in order that they might not be killed for being Indians.
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 55:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
qualifier: cultural studies
glosses: The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
Derived terms: topics: phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: regressive assimilation
topics: phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: anticipatory assimilation
topics: phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: progressive assimilation
topics: phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: perseverative assimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: antiassimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: assimilational
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: assimilationism
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: assimilationist
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: benevolent assimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: bioassimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: disassimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: language assimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: left-to-right assimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: malassimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: nonassimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: obliterative assimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: photoassimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: reassimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: right-to-left assimilation
sense: other terms derived from "assimilation"
word: Yorkshire assimilation
Related terms: acculturation
liaison
mutation
rendaku
sandhi