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assimilate verb

  /əˈsɪm.ɪ.leɪt/
  • (transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
 imeytyä
  • (transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
 omaksua, sisäistää
  • (transitive, rare, used with "to" or "with") To liken, compare to something similar.
 rinnastaa
  • (transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
 sulauttaa

assimilation noun

  /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
  • The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
 assimilaatio, sulautuminen, assimiloituminen, imeyttäminen, imeytyminen, omaksuminen
  • (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.
 assimilaatio
  • (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
  • (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
 omaksuminen
  • The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
 ruoansulatus
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