assimilation
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Is assimilation a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.broadlycountableuncountable
2. (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.Examples: "Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging."countableuncountable
3. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.Examples: "After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish."; "Assimilation was one of the words they used for Indians becoming white in order to survive, in order that they might not be killed for being Indians."countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary