FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n The act of assimilate | assimilating or the state of being assimilate|assimilated.

n The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

n (context|by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

n (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.

n (sociology) (context|cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.