Noun

(en noun)

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= citation

, 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 citation

, 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= citation

, 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.

Noun

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(geology) A change in the structure of magma by melting or the assimilation of a different type of rock.

* 1857 , in the Geological Magazine , volume 85, page 355:

[...] is immaterial whether this magma is derived from a distinct earth shell, or is produced by syntexis between the sima and the sialic rocks.

(medicine) emaciation or wasting away

* 1885 , Dujardin-Beaumetz, Indications for Antithermic Medication'', in the ''New York Medical Abstract , volume 5, page 443:

The patient feels no longer the irritating surface heat which so fatigues him; the syntexis or colliquation is less; he sleeps better, and this antithermic medication does well with forced feeding, [...]