Assimilation or Assimilate may refer to:

Culture

Cultural assimilation Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's Dominant culture, majority group or fully adopts the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group. The melting pot model is based on this ...

, 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, 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 perceived ...

, 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 A series of efforts were made by the United States to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture between the years of 1790 and the 1960s. George Washington and Henry Knox were first to propose, in the American co ...

in the United States **

Jewish assimilation Jewish assimilation (, ''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 conformity as a potential so ...

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

Religious assimilation Religious assimilation refers to the adoption of a majority or dominant culture's Religion, religious practices and beliefs by a minority or subordinate culture. It is an important form of cultural assimilation. Religious assimilation includes t ...

refers to the adoption of a majority or dominant culture's religious practices and beliefs by a minority or subordinate culture *

Assimilation effect Assimilation and contrast effects describe cognitive biases in how individuals perceive and evaluate stimuli based on contextual information. The assimilation effect, also known as assimilation bias, occurs when people judge something as closer t ...

, a frequently observed bias in social cognition *

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 in biology is a crucial metabolic process in which absorbed nutrients are transformed into complex biomolecules that become an integral part of an organism’s cellular structure and function. It occurs after digestion and absorption ...

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

Assimilation (phonology) In phonology, assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds. This process is common across languages and can happen within a word or between words. Fo ...

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

Data assimilation Data assimilation refers to a large group of methods that update information from numerical computer models with information from observations. Data assimilation is used to update model states, model trajectories over time, model parameters, and ...

, updating a numerical model with observed data *

Assimilation (psychology) Constructivism in education is a theory that suggests that learners do not passively acquire knowledge through direct instruction. Instead, they ''construct'' their understanding through experiences and social interaction, integrating new infor ...

, incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes * Assimilation (

geology Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...

), incorporation of external materials into a batch of magma during igneous differentiation

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