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assimilation


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
  • the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
  • a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
  • the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
  • in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance

    • assimilation - thesaurus

    absorption   acculturation  

    Scrabble score for assimilation

    a is 1 s is 1 s is 1 i is 1 m is 3 i is 1 l is 1 a is 1 t is 1 i is 1 o is 1 n is 1
    Scrabble score = 14

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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