Assimilation

Assimilation or Assimilate may refer to:

Culture

 * Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs
 * Language shift, also known as language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language
 * Cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States
 * Jewish assimilation refers to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture
 * Religious assimilation refers to the adoption of a majority or dominant culture's religious practices and beliefs by a minority or subordinate culture
 * Assimilation effect, a frequently observed bias in social cognition


 * Assimilation (French colonial), an ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries

Science

 * Assimilation (biology) the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption
 * Assimilation (phonology), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
 * Data assimilation, updating a numerical model with observed data
 * Assimilation (psychology), incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes
 * Assimilation (geology), incorporation of external materials into a batch of magma during igneous differentiation

Media

 * Assimilation (album), a 2001 album by Deliverance
 * Assimilation (Star Trek), fictional process used by the Borg race
 * Assimilate, a 2019 sci-fi horror film
 * Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, a 2013 non-fiction book