anabolism,
constructive metabolism the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy
assimilation -
the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
relationship a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness); "the relationship between mothers and their children"
assimilation -
in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
assimilation -
a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
linguistic process the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; "he didn't have the language to express his feelings"
assimilation -
the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
assimilation -
The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
assimilation -
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.