become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" become similar in sound; "The nasal assimialates to the following consonant" take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue
If you assimilate new ideas, techniques, or information, you learn them or adopt them. I was speechless, still trying to assimilate the enormity of what he'd told me. = absorb + assimilation as·simi·la·tion This technique brings life to instruction and eases assimilation of knowledge
When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it. There is every sign that new Asian-Americans are just as willing to assimilate His family tried to assimilate into the white and Hispanic communities The Vietnamese are trying to assimilate themselves and become Americans = integrate + assimilation as·simi·la·tion They promote social integration and assimilation of minority ethnic groups into the culture. = integration