Assimilation

Assimilation may refer to:

• Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs
  • Language shift, also known as language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language
  • Cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States
  • Jewish assimilation
• Assimilation (biology) the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption
• Assimilation (phonology), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
• Assimilation (meteorology), the process of objectively adapting the model state (of a numerical weather prediction model) to observations in a statistical optimal way taking into account model and observation errors
• Assimilation (psychology), incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes
• Assimilation (French colonial), an ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Assimilation effect, a frequently observed bias in social cognition
• Assimilation (album), a 2001 album by Deliverance

See also

• List of fictional assimilating races in science fiction
  • Assimilation (Star Trek), process used by the fictional Borg in Star Trek
  • Assimilation, used by the Zerg in the StarCraft series