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 assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language ** Cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States ** Jewish assimilation 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 * Assimilation (French colonial), an ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries

Science

* Assimilation (biology) the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption * Assimilation (phonology), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound * Data assimilation, updating a numerical model with observed data * Assimilation (psychology), incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes

Media

* ''Assimilation'' (album), a 2001 album by Deliverance * Assimilation (''Star Trek''), fictional process used by the Borg race *'' Assimilate'', a 2019 sci-fi horror film *'' Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music'', a 2013 non-fiction book {{disambiguation