Look up: assimilation

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   Assimilation
   The ability of a body of water to purify itself of pollutants.
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   Assimilation
   (Humans as organisms) the incorporation of the products of digestion into the body, where they are used to provide energy or for growth and repair of tissues
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   Assimilation
   First stage in the adaptation of schema, assimilation allows a child to make a general interpretation of its world. In the 'bus' example (see Organisation), once the bus schema is formed the toddler for a while calls similar vehicles buses. On being contradicted by his/her mum, and also on the basis of experience in coming across more and more types of vehicle, he/she realises that a lorry etc. isn't a bus. They begin to be more stimuli specific and use the bus schema only in relation to buses. This is accommodation, or the second stage in the adaptation of schema.
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   Assimilation
   The acceptance of a minority group by a majority population, in which the group takes on the values and norms of the dominant culture.
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   assimilation
   [n] - the state of being assimilated 2. [n] - the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another 3. [n] - the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion 4. [n] - a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound 5. [n] - in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
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   assimilation
   the process by which immigrant groups are absorbed into the host society.
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   Assimilation
   the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture
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   Assimilation
   The process in which foods are utilized and absorbed by the body.
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   assimilation
   Uptake and incorporation of substances by a living organism.
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    assimilation
    the completed distribution of a new securities issue to the public Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • the act of making like,causing to ressemble Category: Statistics
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    Assimilation
    The principle whereby an employee within a donating school who is the only individual expressing an interest for a vacancy in a Learning Centre will be appointed to that post by the Temporary Governing Body without the necessity for interview, providing the post in which interest is expressed does not change in job content or grade significantly to ...
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    Assimilation
    The process in which foods are utilized and absorbed by the body.
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    Assimilation
    As·sim`i·la'tion noun [ Latin assimilatio : confer French assimilation .] 1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. « To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. » « The assimilation of ...
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    assimilation
    1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. 'To aspire to an assimilation with God.' (Dr. H. More) 'The assimilation of gases and vapors.' (Sir J. Herschel) ... 2. <physiology> The conversion of nutriment into t ...
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    assimilation
    noun in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
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    assimilation
    noun a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
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    assimilation
    noun the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
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    Assimilation
    `Assimilation` (from Latin `assimilatio`; `to render similar`) may refer to more than one article: *Assimilation (linguistics), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound *Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture **Language shift or language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts t...
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    assimilation
    (ә-sim″ĭ-la´shәn) psychologically, absorption of new experiences into the existing personality. Called also integration. anabolism. the process by which members of a culture change their lifeways in order to become totally integrated into another culture.
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    Assimilation
    • (n.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. • (n.) The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.A...
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    assimilation
    (from the article `igneous rock`) Another method of creating different daughter magmas from a parent is by having the latter react with its wall rocks. Consider a magma that is ...
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    assimilation
    (from the article `Korean language`) The spoken syllables are fairly simple in structure. Each ends either in a vowel or in one of the voiced consonants p, t, k, m, n, ng, or l. When two ... Certain common types of sound change, most notably assimilation and dissimilation, can be explained, at least partially, in terms of syntagmatic, o...
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    assimilation
    (from the article `human behaviour`) ...Children often possess knowledge that they do not use even when the occasion calls for it. Adapting to new challenges, according to Piaget, ... ...makes generalizations—much as a scientist does. Intellectual development, he argued, derives from two cognitive processes that work in somewhat .....
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    assimilation
    (from the article `cognition`) The second approach is based on the work of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who viewed cognitive adaptation in terms of two basic processes: ...
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    assimilation
    the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society. Usually they are ... [15 related articles]
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