simple past tense and past participle of assimilate

(very rare) Similarity.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assimilate

present participle of assimilate

That assimilates

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. / The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue. / (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

(transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion. / (transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.

Something that is or has been assimilated.

Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation.

A person or thing which assimilates. / In algae, a filament of cells involved with photosynthesis, usually full of chloroplasts.