assimilation
From Wiktionary
[change] Noun
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- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- Changing nutrients into tissue.
- (by extension) Adding new ideas to an old way of thinking.
- (linguistics) Changing a sound so that it becomes similar to the sound next to it.
- When a minority group takes on the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
