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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
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