noun (n)

• the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family(noun.state)

  source: wordnet30
• the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another(noun.process)

  Synonym:
  absorption
  

  source: wordnet30
• the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion(noun.process)

  source: wordnet30
• a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound(noun.process)

  source: wordnet30
• the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  acculturation
  

  source: wordnet30
• in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance(noun.cognition)

  source: wordnet30
• The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.(noun)

  source: webster1913