English Dictionary

assimilation

IPA（発音記号）

/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 広義

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.

日本語の意味

同化：取り込まれて一体化される過程または状態。 / 同化作用：栄養素が組織に変換される代謝過程。 / 吸収：新たな概念や思想が既存の認知構造に取り込まれること。

The assimilation of refugees into the community required both policy support and local empathy.

難民が地域社会に同化するためには、政策の支援と地域の共感の両方が必要だった。

意味（1）

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

--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.

意味（2）

The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.

意味（3）

(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

意味（4）

(phonology) 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.

Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.

意味（5）

(sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

assimilations （ plural ）