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assimilate verb

  /əˈsɪm.ɪ.leɪt/
  • (transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
 assimilar, absorver
  • (transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
 assimilar, anabolizar
  • (transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
 assimilar, integrar

assimilation noun

  /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
  • The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
  • The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
  • (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.
 assimilação

assimilable adjective

  • Capable of being assimilated; susceptible to assimilation.
 assimilável
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