Meaning Assimilation
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(1) Absorption and creation of food resources. (2) Organic metabolic products of food digestion. Usually the various organic constituents of the organism.
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The full adoption by an individual or group of the culture, values and patterns of a different social, religious, linguistic or national ethos, resulting in the diminution or elimination of attitudina [..]
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The energy-requiring process by which plant cells convert nitrate ions (NO3−) taken up by the roots of plants into ammonium ions (NH4+), which can then be used in the synthesis of amino acids and othe [..]
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Uptake and incorporation of substances by a living organism.
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 According to Piaget, the process whereby new cognitive elements are fitted in with old elements or modified to fit more easily; this process works in tandem with accommodation.
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The public absorption of a new issue of stocks once the stock has been completely sold by underwriter. See: Absorbed.
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The absorption of something
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To be structurally and/or culturally absorbed by a dominant group. During this process, an individual or a group is largely forced to shed its own culture and take on the culture of the dominant group [..]
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early 15c., "act of assimilating," from Old French assimilacion, from Latin assimilationem (nominative assimilatio) "likeness, similarity," noun of action from past participle stem [..]
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Adaptation of one ethnic or social group – usually a minority – to another. Assimilation involves the subsuming of language, traditions, values, mores and behaviour or even fundamental vital interests [..]
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process by which people acquire the culture and habits of the dominant group.
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the incorporation or conversion of nutrients into protoplasm that in animals follows digestion and absorption and in higher plants involves both photosynthesis and root absorption Click for citation
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Algeo defines linguistic assimilation as &quot;The process by which two sounds become more alike&quot; (313). We can see this in the word spaceship, where the /s/ sound represented by the < [..]
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The conversion of food into cell walls and cell contents.
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The building of cell matter from inorganic and organic materials (carbohydrates and sugars).
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When sounds change because of the sound that comes after them, it is assimilation. For instance, the ten in ten pounds can sound like tem because the final consonant   ,/m/, is pronounced with the sam [..]
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Incorporating objects, experiences, or information into existing schemas.
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The process of becoming incorporated into mainstream society. Strict observance of Jewish laws and customs pertaining to dress, food, and religious holidays tends to keep Jewish people separate and di [..]
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A policy requiring all people living in a community, regardless of their cultural background or country of origin, to adopt the same manner of living as the dominant culture.
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a process by which a minority or immigrant group is through contact absorbed into the culture of another group or groups.
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the process of absorbing one group into the culture or customs of another group or population
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A minority group&#39;s internalization of the values and norms of the dominant culture, they become socially, economically, and politically absorbed into the wider culture.
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Definition The completed distribution of a new securities issue to the public.
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Absorption and building up of digested nutriments into complex organic protoplasmic materials. aster
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n. 1. in Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, the process of incorporating new information into pre-existing cognitive schemas. See also Piagetian theory of intelligence- accommodation- [..]
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asimilatsie
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This term stemmed from the work of Jean Piaget and his work on cognitive development of children. Assimilation is the cognitive process of fitting new information into existing cognitive schemas, perc [..]
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The ability of water to purify itself of pollutants.
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The incorporation of materials into the body.
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(L: ad=for/toward; similis=like; absorption) conversion of digested and absorbed food into body material; growing.
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in the nitrogen cycle, when living organisms take up nitrogen
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the process of change that occurs when an individual or group adopts the characteristics of the dominant culture and is fully incorporated into that culture’s social, economic, and political institutions.
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The ability of water to purify itself of pollutants.
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The process whereby a minority group is incorporated into the wider society (or charter group). Can be behavioural assimilation or structural assimilation. May explain degrees of segregation.
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The cultural, ethnic, linguistic, or other absorption of one or more peoples by  another, dominant, group. Government policies or popular biases may promote assimilation, as with French imperial polit [..]
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The merging of minority and majority groups into one group with a come mon culture and identity.
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(toggle)A 19th century theory that Aboriginal (and other cultural minorities), including Noongars, should be 'civilized', by becoming Christians and living as Europeans did. From the 1930s, assimilation became government policy and it was used as an ideology in the taking of light skinned children from their families (the Stolen Generatio [..]
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The social process by which individuals and groups are absorbed into another, usually dominant, cultural group.
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The process whereby an individual or group is absorbed into the social structures and cultural life of another person, group, or society
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Assimilation is the act or process of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. Assimilate means to make similar or to incorporate and absorb into the mind. For example, this country assimilates [..]
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(n) the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family(n) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with a [..]
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There are various types of assimilation, all of which have in common that one sound (the target) copies a feature or features of a sound in its environment (the source). Assimilation may be classified [..]
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a term from the work of Jean Piaget (1896-1980), referring to the way in which a learner can make sense of new experiences by incorporating them into their existing conceptions (see accommodation, sch [..]
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is a process of consistent integration whereby members of an ethno-cultural group, typically immigrants, or other minority groups, are "absorbed" into an established larger community. If a child assimilates into a new culture, he/she gives up his/her cultural values and beliefs and adopts the new cultural values in their place. Originates [..]
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A 19th century idea that Indigenous people should be 'improved' by being 'civilised' and becoming Christians and learning how to work as Europeans did. From the 1930s assimilation became government policy.
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Ability of natural systems to safely absorb waste and residuals.
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The ability of a body of water to purify itself of pollutants.
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The ability of a body of water to purify itself of pollutants.
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Adaptation of one ethnic or social group – usually a minority
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Assimilationist assumptions reflect the male-dominated European culture that embraced Christian ideologies, biomedical practices, and capitalist aspirations, and that supported the introduction of the [..]
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The process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs and/or vice versa. Cultural assimilation can happen either spontaneously or for [..]
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Absorbing or incorporating one culture into another.
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The tendency of listeners to interpret the positions of a speaker with whom they agree as closer to their own views than they actually are.
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where learners of different backgrounds (or levels) identify themselves as one group
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The act or process of assimilating involves bringing or identifying a resemblance, likeness, or identity; from one object or environment into another. For example, new immigrants to a country may be a [..]
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The building of cell matter from inorganic and organic materials (carbohydrates and sugars).
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the ability of a water body to purify itself of pollutants.
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Conversion into living tissue.
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The public absorption of a new issue of stocks once the stock has been completely sold by underwriter. See: Absorbed.
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