assimilate
verb
/əˈsɪm.ɪ.leɪt/
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- (transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
- (transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
- (transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
- (transitive, rare, used with "to" or "with") To liken, compare to something similar.
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assimilar
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assimilation
noun
/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
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- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- (phonology) 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.
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assimilació
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assimilative
adjective
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- Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation.
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assimilatiu,
assimilatori
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assimilable
adjective
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- Capable of being assimilated; susceptible to assimilation.
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assimilable
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