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Assimilation

noun

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. Synonym: absorption.

The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion. Synonym: absorption.

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

The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure. Synonym: acculturation.

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

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"Assimilation" Quotes from Famous Books

... never be able to paint, simply because he had never been, and would never be, able to work. That gift he wholly lacked. Besides, like young Peter, he seemed constitutionally incapable of success. A wide and quick receptiveness, a considerable power of appreciation and assimilation, made such genius as they had; the power of performance they desperately lacked; their enterprises always let them through. Failure was the tragi-comic note of ...

— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay

... Unconsciously, by natural assimilation, so to speak, Hazel Weir had absorbed more woodcraft than she realized in her over-winter stay in the high latitudes. Bill Wagstaff had once told her that few people know just what they can do until they are compelled to ...

— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... however, no doubt that at the present time the knowledge of these stories tends to die out. Under the peace which British rule brings there is more intercourse between the different communities and castes, a considerable, degree of assimilation takes place, and old customs and traditions tend to ...

— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas

... separated from the child for one moment. The authorities conceived it necessary to take his statement in private—but allowed her to stand just outside the door—before his mind could be influenced by the comments of others or the involuntary assimilation of their views with his knowledge of the facts, for there was still a large reward for any information leading to the apprehension of the murderers of Edward Briscoe. Little Archie had obviously been a witness ...

— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock

... colored race absorbed, wittingly or unwittingly, something of the vein into their plaints or lullabies,—that, indeed, Foster's songs may have been a true type that stirred their own imitation. From all points of view,—the condition of slavery, the trait of assimilation and the strong gift of musical expression may have conspired to give the negro a position and equipment which would entitle his tunes to stand as the ...

— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp

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