Antonym: dissimilation. Similar words: assimilate, dissimilar, dissimilarity, similar, similarly, assassination, similarity, be similar to. Meaning: [ə‚sɪmɪ'leɪʃn] n. 1. the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family 2. the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another 3. the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion 4. a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound 5. the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure 6. in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance.
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31 Too much assimilation and one is becalmed in the doldrums and no progress is possible at all.
32 Assimilation of voice is also found, but again only in a limited way.
33 Those who do make it pay the steep price of assimilation.
34 Plainly, something has gone wrong with this great process of assimilation.
35 The discounting and assimilation processes bear little comparison to descriptions made in any of the content areas.
36 But they minimize the difference in so far as they propound a thoroughgoing assimilation of male and female desires.
37 Their brisk assimilation, and their steady success, caused some harsh words to be spoken.
38 A good deal of this, waiting for assimilation, would never be accommodated.
39 All interpretation requires the reconciliation of the competing claims of assimilation and accommodation.
40 The processes of assimilation and accommodation ensure the continuous construction and reconstruction of cognitive and affective structures.
41 Equilibrium is a state of balance between assimilation and accommodation.
42 The United States had towns and industries that were already flourishing; it also had immense powers of persuasion and assimilation.
43 Therefore,(http://sentencedict.com) a balance between assimilation and accommodation is as necessary as the processes themselves.
44 Normally, this result would be explained in terms of the three causal processes of attention decrement, discounting, and assimilation.
45 Through assimilation we can achieve consistency in our impressions of others.
46 Generally speaking, it has been assimilation rather than accommodation which has characterized interpretation in the domain of language pedagogy over recent years.
47 The gradual assimilation of oppositional art into institutional orthodoxy represents one of the failed utopias of the modern period.
48 Through assimilation and accommodation, the external world one experiences is organized and given structure.
49 The assimilation of legacy and trust is not, then, a general phenomenon but is related somehow to Scaevola in particular.
50 Piaget identifies two fundamental aspects or modes of adaptation: accommodation and assimilation.
51 Even the gradual assimilation of his disappointment would leave scars and blights, like a landscape after fire.
52 If I did not put on the brakes, I might be swept away into assimilation, which I resisted.
53 Intermarriage and assimilation have diluted the ethnic component further.
54 Foxconn's work ethics: assimilation, accountability and progressiveness.
55 The main diagenesis is fractional crystallization assimilation and contamination.
56 And the process of assimilation goes on unimpeded.
57 the rapid assimilation of new ideas.
58 With innovative energy, we indraught, assimilation, absorb and improve the advanced technic of overseas.
59 This thesis makes a tentative study of Ch'ien Chung-shu's critical assimilation of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding.
60 The degradation or assimilation of fatty materials is often restricted because of their relative insolubility.
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