assimilation

同化, 同化作用, 消化

assimilation

1. the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

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2. the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

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3. the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

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

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5. the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

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6. in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance

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