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Etymology edit

From Dutch assimilatie.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [asi.miˈla.si]
  • Hyphenation: asi‧mi‧la‧si

Noun edit

asimilasi (first-person possessive asimilasiku, second-person possessive asimilasimu, third-person possessive asimilasinya)

  1. assimilation:
    1. the act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
    2. (linguistics, 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.
    3. (biology, nutrition) the metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
    4. (sociology) the adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

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