- 1[uncountable] the act of assimilating someone or something, or being assimilated the rapid assimilation of new ideas his assimilation into the community
Definitions on the go
Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
- 2[uncountable, countable] (phonetics) the act of making two sounds in speech that are next to each other more similar to each other in certain ways, for example the pronunciation of the/t/ in football as a/p/; an example of this process
Check pronunciation: assimilation