Word Finder - assimilation

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The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

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The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

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

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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.

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

In these colonies the system of assimilation was carried to great lengths.

I shall assume that she has the normal child's capacity of assimilation and imitation.

Many minor anthropological differentiae can be distinguished among both the Great and the Little Russians, depending probably on the assimilation of various minor subdivisions of the Ural-Altaians.

Besides absorption, assimilation, conduction and protection there is another very important function for which provision has to be made in any plant-body of considerable size, especially when raised into the air, that of support.

We frequently find the expression used, the assimilation of carbon dioxide, or of nitrogen.

With reference to the assimilation of nitrogen, it would seem that algae, like other green plants, can best use it when it is presented to them in the form of a nitrate.

In the whiteness of its fur also, it shows such an assimilation in colour to that of surrounding nature as must be of considerable service in concealing it from its prey.

The assimilation of complex foods consequently may be regarded as supplying the protoplasm with a potential store of energy, as well as building tip its substance.

Assimilation goes on during the whole year, except during periods of frost or when the plants are buried by snow.

Nor was the process of assimilation by any means one-sided.

The contrast between the yellow and white types has been softened by the remarkable development of the Japanese following the assimilation of western methods.

Nevertheless, the process of assimilation goes on with great rapidity.

This proves once more the ancient capacity of the Greeks for the assimilation of foreign elements.

After a great inquiry held in 1892 by a senatorial committee a reaction was produced in France against this excessive assimilation.

Nutrition (assimilation) by the leaves includes the inhalation of air, and the interaction under the influence of light and in the presence of chlorophyll of the carbon dioxide of the air with the water received from the root, to form carbonaceous food.

Respiration in plants, as in other organisms, is a process that goes on by night as well as by day and consists in plants in the breaking up of the complex carbonaceous substances formed by assimilation into less complex and more transportable substances.

Many factors helped in the process of assimilation.

Indeed, it was his extraordinary activity and power of assimilation in such directions that allowed him to keep his fellow-countrymen so well informed of what was going on in the outer world.

With reference to the assimilation of nitrogen, it would seem that algae, like other green plants,, can best use it when it is presented to them in the form of a nitrate.

Assimilation refers to the process of taking in new information by incorporating it into an existing schema.

Substances contained in the Protoplastn.Starch may be found in the chlorophyll bodies in the form of minute granules as the first visible product of the assimilation of carbon dioxide, and it occurs in large quantities as a reserve food material in the cells of various parts of plants.

The sepals are generally organs for the protection of the flower-bud; the petals, for attracting insects by their conspicuous form and color; the foliage-leaves, for the assimilation of carbon dioxide and other associated functions.

Whatever recollection they preserved of their origin and of the circumstances of their entry would be retold from a new standpoint; the ethnological traditions would gain a new meaning; the assimilation would in time become complete.

Unlike the Chinese and Indians, they have hitherto not had the smallest influence on the intellectual development of Asia, and though they have in the past sometimes shown themselves intensely nationalist and conservative, they have, compared with India and China, so little which is really their own that their assimilation of foreign ideas is explicable.

The reformists demanded, besides the correction of the above evils, action against slavery, assimilation of rights between peninsulars and creoles and the practical recognition of equality, e.g.

Of late years, however, there has been a gradual assimilation of broader views by the leaders of Islam in Turkey, at any rate at Constantinople, and the revolution of 1908, and its affirmation in the spring of 1909, took place not only with their approval, but with their active assistance.

This elaboration of the pontifical vestments was contemporaneous with, and doubtless partly determined by, the assimilation of the bishops during those centuries to the type of the great feudal nobles whose ambitions and love of pomp they shared.

The act of parliament which enabled this amalgamation received the royal assent on the 26th of July 1907, and authorized the union "to deal with real and personal property belonging to the said three churches or denominations, to provide for the vesting of the said property in trust for the United Church so formed and for the assimilation of the trusts thereof, and for other purposes."

Education is not in its essential nature a training administered to the young by an older generation, but is the natural and unaided assimilation of the Record of the Past by the automatically educable brain - an assimilation which is always in all races very large but becomes far larger in civilized communities.

The effect of overwork upon an organ or tissue varies in accordance with (a) the particular organ or tissue concerned, (b) the amount of nourishment conveyed to it, and (c) the power of assimilation possessed by its cells.

In our conceptions of the later stages of assimilation and of excretion, with the generation of poisons (auto-intoxication) in the intestinal tract, there is still much obscurity and much guess-work; yet in some directions positive knowledge has been gained, partly by the physiologist, partly by the physician himself.

But his work was cut short by his death in 440; the hope of the Sicel people now lay in assimilation to their Hellenic neighbours.

Serapis was a god imported by the first Ptolemy from Sinope on the Black Sea, who soon lost his own identity by assimilation with Osiris-Apis, the bull revered in Memphis.

There is close interconnexion between the two aspects of the double activity that in physiological theory constitute the chemical life of protoplasm, between dissimilation and assimilation.

It is not difficult in such compact species to distinguish between superficial cells, whose chief function is assimilation, subjacent cells charged with reserve material, and a core of tissue engaged in the convection of elaborated material from part to part.

By an ingenious method devised by Engelmann, it may be shown that the greatest liberation of oxygen, and consequently the greatest assimilation of carbon, occurs in that region of the spectrum represented by the absorption bands.

Owing to the uncompromising character of the Mahommedan religion and the contemptuous attitude of the dominant race, the subject nationalities underwent no process of assimilation during the four centuries of Turkish rule; they retained not only their language but their religion, manners and peculiar characteristics, and when the power of the central authority waned they still possessed the germs of a national existence.

They have been passed though one editorial mind, and some mutual assimilation in phraseology and idea may well have resulted.

The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.

Among the peculiarities of Portuguese conjugation may be rnentioned(1) the assimilation of the 3rd pers.

Despite these efforts, however, much of Wales successfully resisted assimilation into the Roman empire.

Although not in favor of forced assimilation, most people clearly want immigrant communities to become integrated into the wider society.

Other physiological effects are not well defined but can involve reduced carbon dioxide assimilation and reduced protein synthesis.

Our aim is to provide a consistent theoretical foundation which allows for model error in variational assimilation.

Outside the South East of Britain, a very gradual assimilation of Roman material culture was the norm.

They allow for the rapid assimilation of practical lessons from experience at very little cost.

He called it genetic assimilation (see Thom, 1989 ).

The Project Board have agreed that Bolton will not reach the Regional target of complete assimilation by October 2005.

An improved analysis of forest carbon dynamics using data assimilation.

The assimilation of events with substances in this way seems strained, however.