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# Assimilation

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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. For cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States see Americanization (of Native Americans).

## [edit] See also

- Assimilation (Star Trek), process used by the fictional Star Trek Borg race to integrate a being into their collective structure
- The Zerg method of evolving, also called infest(ing)
- Media and ethnicity
- Accommodation in Jean Piaget's theory of loserness
- 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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