The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
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.
(cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.