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Assimilation (noun)
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
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Assimilation (noun)
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
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Assimilation (noun)
The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
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Assimilation (noun)
A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
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Assimilation (noun)
The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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Accommodation (noun)
Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
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Accommodation (noun)
Adaptation or adjustment.
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Accommodation (noun)
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
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Accommodation (noun)
A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
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Accommodation (noun)
The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
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Accommodation (noun)
Adaptation or adjustment.
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Accommodation (noun)
The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
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Accommodation (noun)
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
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Accommodation (noun)
Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
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Accommodation (noun)
The application of a writer’s language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
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Accommodation (noun)
A loan of money.
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Accommodation (noun)
An accommodation bill or note.
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Accommodation (noun)
An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
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Accommodation (noun)
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
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Accommodation (noun)
Modifications to make one’s way of speaking similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
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Assimilation (noun)
the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
“the assimilation of the knowledge of the Greeks”
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Assimilation (noun)
the absorption and integration of people, ideas, or culture into a wider society or culture
“the assimilation of Italians into American society”
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Assimilation (noun)
the absorption and digestion of food or nutrients by the body or any biological system
“nitrate assimilation usually takes place in leaves”
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Assimilation (noun)
the process of becoming similar to something
“Watson was ready to work for the assimilation of Scots law to English law where he thought it was justified”
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Assimilation (noun)
the fact of a sound being made more like another in the same or next word
“there are many assimilations and elisions of consonants and vowels”
“when p is preceded by some Latin prefixes, it is doubled because of the assimilation of a consonant, as in ‘apparent’ (ad-parent)”
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Accommodation (noun)
a room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay
“they were living in temporary accommodation”
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Accommodation (noun)
lodgings, sometimes also including board
“the company offers a number of guest house accommodations in Oberammergau”
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Accommodation (noun)
the available space for occupants in a building, vehicle, or vessel
“there was lifeboat accommodation for 1,178 people”
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Accommodation (noun)
the provision of a room or lodgings
“the building is used exclusively for the accommodation of guests”
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Accommodation (noun)
a convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise
“the prime minister was seeking an accommodation with Labour”
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Accommodation (noun)
the process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something
“accommodation to a separate political entity was not possible”
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Accommodation (noun)
the automatic adjustment of the focus of the eye by flattening or thickening of the lens
“the power of accommodation to near objects”