Assimilation vs Dissimilation - What's the difference?
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The act of assimilating]] or the state of being [[assimilate, assimilated.
* {{quote-book, year=1797, author=An English Lady, title=A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,, chapter=, edition=
, passage=--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.}}
* {{quote-news, year=1996, date=January 26, author=Bertha Husband, title=Double Identity, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.}}
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
* {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Washington Gladden, title=The Church and Modern Life, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We have great need to be careful in these assimilations ; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.}}
(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
(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.
(sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.
(phonology) A phenomenon whereby similar consonant or vowel sounds in a word become less similar, resulting in a form that is easier for the listener to perceive.
Dissimilation is a antonym of assimilation.
In phonology terms the difference between assimilation and dissimilation
is that assimilation is 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 while dissimilation is a phenomenon whereby similar consonant or vowel sounds in a word become less similar, resulting in a form that is easier for the listener to perceive.As nouns the difference between assimilation and dissimilation
is that assimilation is the act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated while dissimilation is the act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.assimilation
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