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Meaning of assimilation

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  assimilation
      n 1: the state of being assimilated; people of different
           backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger
           national family
      2: the social process of absorbing one cultural group into
         harmony with another [syn: {assimilation}, {absorption}]
      3: the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after
         digestion [syn: {assimilation}, {absorption}]
      4: a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an
         adjacent sound
      5: the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing
         cognitive structure [syn: {acculturation}, {assimilation}]
      6: in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general
         schema to a particular instance

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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