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Assimilation

Assimilation (from Latin assimilatio; "to render similar") may refer to more than one article:

• Assimilation (linguistics), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
• Assimilation (biology), the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption
• Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture

See also

• Assimilation (Star Trek), process used by the fictional Borg race to integrate a being into the collective structure
• Media and ethnicity
• accommodation in Jean Piaget's theory
• in psychoanalysis, a mutual penetration of conscious and unconscious contents
• in computer science, the modification of anti-virus software to detect a new virus
• in typesetting, the symmetry property possessed in varying degrees by a typeface that creates mirror relationships and other similarities of form between letters

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