Assimilation

Assimilation ( from Latin similis 'similar' ) stands for:

Assimilation ( biology), the step-wise conversion of materials foreign to the body in the body's own substances, both in the plant and in the animal kingdom
Assimilation ( Psychology ), the integration of an object of human experience in a cognitive schema
Assimilation ( psychophysiology ), the alignment of a new consciousness content to the related material readiness
Assimilation ( phonology ), a class of approximation phenomena between speech sounds
Assimilation ( Sociology ), the complete absorption of a group ( ethnic, religious, cultural) in another group, and assimilation
Assimilation ( colonialism ), originally operated primarily by France and Portugal policy of pre- formation Europeanized elites in their African colonies, see also Assimilado
Assimilation ( volcanism ), the interaction of host rock in a magmatic melt with the surrounding rock
Assimilation ( meteorology and climatology), the integration of remote sensing ( satellite-based ) reference measurements in climate models
Assimilation ( color perception), the background- dependent color perception