Definizione monolingua

assimilation

assimilation (plural assimilations)

1. 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,^[1]:

     --France swarms with Gracchuss 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”, Chicago Reader:

     His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and hes said, ""Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.

2. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
   • 1908, Washington Gladden, The Church and Modern Life^[2]:

     We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.

3. (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
4. (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.
5. (sociology) (cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Definizione dizionario assimilation

	assimilazione
	Conversion of nutritive material to living tissue. (Source: KOREN)

anabolismo

Altri significati:

	{{italbrac|phonology
	act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated
	The metabolic conversion of nutriments
	(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.
	(sociology) (cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
	The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
	(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
	The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.