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assimilation
英 [ə,sɪmɪ'leɪʃən]
美[əˌsɪməˈleʃən]
- n. 同化;吸收;[生化] 同化作用
英英释意
- 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