assimilation

Assimilation stands for:

• Assimilation (biology) , the conversion of foreign substances into the body's own substances
• Assimilation (sociology) , the adjustment of one social group to another
• Forced assimilation, targeted induction of social assimilation, see assimilation policy
• Assimilation (colonialism) , the assimilation policies of France and Portugal in Africa
• Assimilation (learning psychology) , integration of an object of human experience into a cognitive scheme
• Assimilation (psychophysiology) , adjustment of a new content of consciousness to the material in readiness
• Assimilation (phonology) , class of similarities between speech sounds
• Assimilation (geology) , the interaction of host rock in an igneous melt with the surrounding rock
• Data assimilation , adaptation of a weather forecast model

See also:

• Assimilado

Wiktionary: Assimilation  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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