Assimilation (from Latin assimilatio; "to render similar") may refer to more than one article: · Assimilation , a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound · Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture · Language shift or language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language · Americanization , cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States · Jewish assimilation · Assimilation , the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption · Assimilation , the process of objectively adapting the model state (of a numerical weather prediction model) to observations in a statistical optimal way taking into account model and observation errors.

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