• Assimilation (linguistics)
  Assimilation (linguistics)
  Assimilation is a common phonological process by which the sound of the ending of one word blends into the sound of the beginning of the following word. This occurs when the parts of the mouth and vocal cords start to form the beginning sounds of the next word before the last sound has been...
  
  , a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
• Cultural assimilation
  Cultural assimilation
  Cultural assimilation is a socio-political response to demographic multi-ethnicity that supports or promotes the assimilation of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture. The term assimilation is often used with regard to immigrants and various ethnic groups who have settled in a new land. New...
  
  , the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs.
  • Assimilation (sociology), the blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society
  • Linguistic assimilation (language shift), the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language
  • Americanization (of Native Americans)
    Americanization (of Native Americans)
    The Americanization of Native Americans was an assimilation effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European-American culture between the years of 1790–1920. George Washington and Henry Knox were first to propose, in an American context, the cultural transformation of...
    
    , cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States
  • Jewish assimilation
    Jewish assimilation
    Jewish assimilation refers to the cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture. Assimilation became legally possible in Europe during the Age of Enlightenment.-Background:Judaism forbids the worship of other gods...
    
    
• Assimilation (biology)
  Assimilation (biology)
  Biological assimilation, or bio assimilation, is the combination of two processes to supply animal cells with nutrients. The first is the process of absorbing vitamins, minerals, and other chemicals from food within the gastrointestinal tract...
  
   the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption
• Assimilation (meteorology), the process of objectively adapting the model state (of a numerical weather prediction model) to observations in a statistical optimal way taking into account model and observation errors.
• Assimilation (psychology), incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes
• Assimilation Effect
  Assimilation effect
  The assimilation effect is a frequently observed bias in evaluative judgments towards the position of a context stimulus. When an assimilation effect occurs, judgments and contextual information are correlated positively, i.e. a positive context stimulus results in a positive judgment, whereas a...
  
  , describes a frequently observed bias in social cognition.

See also

• Assimilating race in science fiction
  • Assimilation (Star Trek), process used by the fictional Star Trek
    Star Trek
    Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
    
    Borg
    Borg (Star Trek)
    The Borg are a fictional pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms depicted in the Star Trek universe associated with Star Trek.Whereas cybernetics are used by other races in the science fiction world to repair bodily damage and birth defects, the Borg use enforced cybernetic enhancement as a means of...
    
     race to integrate a being into their collective structure
  • Biological assimilation is also used by the Zerg in the StarCraft
    StarCraft
    StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The first game of the StarCraft series was released for Microsoft Windows on 31 March 1998. With more than 11 million copies sold worldwide as of February 2009, it is one of the best-selling...
    
    series as a way of incorporating the genetics of other species into their own genepool.
  • In Superman, assimilation is the method of being stabbed or injected with kryptonite
    Kryptonite
    Kryptonite is a fictional material from the Superman mythos —the ore form of a radioactive element from Superman's home planet of Krypton. It is famous for being the ultimate physical weakness of Superman, and the word kryptonite has since become synonymous with an Achilles' heel —the one weakness...
    
    
• In psychoanalysis
  Psychoanalysis
  Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
  
  , a mutual penetration of conscious and unconscious contents
• In Piaget
  Jean Piaget
  Jean Piaget was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"....
  
  ian developmental psychology
  Developmental psychology
  Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to...
  
  , one of the twin processes whereby concepts are modified (along with accommodation)
• In computer science
  Computer science
  Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
  
  , the modification of anti-virus software to detect a new virus
• In typesetting
  Typesetting
  Typesetting is the composition of text by means of types.Typesetting requires the prior process of designing a font and storing it in some manner...
  
  , the symmetry property possessed in varying degrees by a typeface that creates mirror relationships and other similarities of form between letters