Assimilation may refer to:

Culture

Cultural assimilation Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially. The different types of cultural assi ...

, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs **

Language shift Language shift, also known as language transfer or language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language, usually over an extended period of time. Often, languages that are perceiv ...

, also known as language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language **

Cultural assimilation of Native Americans The cultural assimilation of Native Americans refers to a series of efforts by the United States to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920. George Washington and Henry Knox we ...

in the United States **

Jewish assimilation Jewish assimilation ( he, התבוללות, ''hitbolelut'') refers either to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture or to an ideological program in the age of emancipation promoting conform ...

refers to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture *

Assimilation effect The assimilation effect, assimilation bias or biased assimilation is a bias in evaluative judgments towards the position of a context stimulus, while contrast effects describe a negative correlation between a judgment and contextual information. ...

, a frequently observed bias in social cognition *

Religious assimilation Religious assimilation refers to the adoption of a majority or dominant culture's Religion, religious practices and Belief, beliefs by a minority or subordinate culture. It is an important form of cultural assimilation.assimilation on its own lite ...

Assimilation (French colonial) Assimilation was a major ideological component of French colonialism during the 19th and 20th centuries. The French government promoted the concept of cultural assimilation to colonial subjects in the French colonial empire, claiming that by adop ...

, an ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries

Science

Assimilation (biology) Assimilation is the process of absorption of vitamins, minerals, and other chemicals from food as part of the nutrition of an organism. In humans, this is always done with a chemical breakdown (enzymes and acids) and physical breakdown (oral mas ...

the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption *

Assimilation (phonology) Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds. A common type of phonological process across languages, assimilation can occur either within a word o ...

, a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound *

Data assimilation Data assimilation is a mathematical discipline that seeks to optimally combine theory (usually in the form of a numerical model) with observations. There may be a number of different goals sought – for example, to determine the optimal state es ...

, updating a numerical model with observed data *

Assimilation (psychology) Assimilation or Assimilate may refer to: Culture *Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs **Language shift, also known as language assimilatio ...

, incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes

Media

* ''Assimilation'' (album), a 2001 album by Deliverance *

Assimilation (Star Trek) The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe. The Borg are Cyborg, cybernetic organisms (cyborgs) linked in a Group mind (science fiction), hive mind called "the Collective". The Borg ...

, process used by the fictional Borg in ''Star Trek'' *'' Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music'', a 2013 non-fiction book *''Assimilate'', a 2018 film starring

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is an American actor known for his role in the 2011 ...

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