Assimilation

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Assimilation

Assimilation (from Latin ''assimilatio''; "to render similar") may refer to more than one article:

Assimilation (linguistics) , a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

Assimilation (biology) , the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption

Cultural Assimilation , the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture

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Assimilation (Star Trek) , process used by the fictional Borg race to integrate a being into the collective structure

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Accommodation in Jean Piaget's theory

In Psychoanalysis , a mutual penetration of conscious and unconscious contents

In Computer Science , the modification of anti-virus software to detect a new virus

In Typesetting , the symmetry property possessed in varying degrees by a typeface that creates mirror relationships and other similarities of form between letters