assimilation

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

   Angleichung, Assimilation

   ассимиля́цияassimiljácija

2. (countable, uncountable)The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

   Angleichung, Assimilation

   усвое́ниеusvojénije

   the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

3. (broadly, countable, uncountable)The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

   the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

4. (countable, uncountable)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.

   Assimilation

   ассимиля́цияassimiljácija

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

5. (countable, uncountable)The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

   After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.

1. Instead of choosing between tolerance and assimilation, what we really need are respect and acceptance of differences.

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2. Mountain and desert Berbers resisted assimilation.

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3. Algerians don't want cultural assimilation with Western nations.

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4. Many Russian Jews speak Russian today instead of Yiddish due to assimilation under the Soviet Union.

   deViele russische Juden sprechen heute aufgrund der Assimilation unter der Sowjetunion statt Jiddisch Russisch.

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5. The Jews who are doing well in America have largely shed every last trapping of Jewishness for assimilation into goy culture.

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