assimilation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. countable,uncountable
    — --France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.
  2. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue. countable,uncountable
    — We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
  3. The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure. broadly,countable,uncountable
  4. A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs. countable,uncountable
    — Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.
  5. The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture. countable,uncountable
    — After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.

词形变化

assimilations plural

词汇关系

反义词
dissimilation
衍生词
regressive assimilation anticipatory assimilation progressive assimilation perseverative assimilation antiassimilation assimilational assimilationism assimilationist benevolent assimilation bioassimilation disassimilation language assimilation left-to-right assimilation malassimilation nonassimilation obliterative assimilation photoassimilation reassimilation right-to-left assimilation Yorkshire assimilation
相关词
acculturation liaison mutation rendaku sandhi

词源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.
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