the cultural absorption of a minority group into the main cultural body
b. Linguistics
a process in which a sound, influenced by a neighboring sound, tends to become likeit in articulation
the (n) in “in-” meaning “not” becomes (l) by assimilation in forming “illiterate”
c. Physiology
the change of digested food into the protoplasm of an animal; also, the absorption and incorporation of nutritive elements by plants, as in photosynthesis
Examples of 'assimilation' in a sentence
assimilation
It forms the basis for carbohydrate assimilation in all of northern and western Zimroel.