Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 11 compound words that contain assimilation. The most common are listed below. Open assimilation in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- progressive assimilationAn assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the preceding sound.
- regressive assimilationAn assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the following sound.
- benevolent assimilationThe assimilation of a group of foreigners by absorbing them into a new culture, with the primary stated reason being that it is an act of benevolence.
- language assimilationSynonym of language shift: The process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language.
- obliterative assimilationThe assimilation of new knowledge that causes changes to one's existing mental framework for organizing that knowledge.
- Yorkshire assimilationA kind of assimilation associated with the English spoken in Yorkshire, England, where a final voiced obstruent preceding an initial voiceless obstruent is devoiced.
- anticipatory assimilationSynonym of regressive assimilation: An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the following sound.
- left-to-right assimilationSynonym of progressive assimilation: An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the preceding sound.
- right-to-left assimilationSynonym of regressive assimilation: An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the following sound.
- perseverative assimilationSynonym of progressive assimilation: An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the preceding sound.
Compound words 11
- disassimilationcatabolism (metabolism with the release of energy)
- assimilationismThe policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a mainstream culture.
- assimilationalRelated to assimilation.
- antiassimilationOpposing assimilation.
- bioassimilationBiological or biochemical assimilation.
- malassimilationImperfect digestion of nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract.
- nonassimilationAbsence of assimilation; failure to assimilate.
- photoassimilationThe process of photoassimilating.
- reassimilationA second or subsequent assimilation
- assimilationistAn advocate of the policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a mainstream culture.