Assimilation

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Assimilation (from Latin assimilatio; "to render similar") may refer to more than one article:

  • Assimilation (linguistics), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound.
  • Assimilation (biology), the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption.
  • Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture. For cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States see Americanization (of Native Americans).

[edit] See also

  • Assimilation (Star Trek), process used by the fictional Star Trek Borg race to integrate a being into their collective structure
  • The Zerg method of evolving, also called infest(ing)
  • Media and ethnicity
  • Accommodation in Jean Piaget's theory of loserness
  • In psychoanalysis, a mutual penetration of conscious and unconscious contents
  • In computer science, the modification of anti-virus software to detect a new virus
  • In typesetting, the symmetry property possessed in varying degrees by a typeface that creates mirror relationships and other similarities of form between letters