0 present participle of assimilate
1 to become part of a group, country, society, etc., or to make someone or something become part of a group, country, society, etc.:
2 to understand and remember new information and make it part of your basic knowledge so that you can use it as your own:
It's hard to assimilate so much information.
3 to absorb food or a substance into the tissue of a living organism:
But individuation is not only a matter of assimilating and integrating what you can.
But the time that is saved in that way is spent assimilating a new context for each new instance.
As already noted, he contended that foreigners would strengthen the national organism by assimilating into it.
For such clinicians, assimilating information from papers on the value of tests is fraught with difficulties.
He sees the mind as an undivided faculty oriented towards the concrete, incessantly assimilating it by way of analogies.
Each student was assigned the task of totally assimilating one poem and studying it intensively during the three months of courses.
These alternations reflect different strategies for assimilating impersonals to the case conventions of a language.
Even so, she was faced with assimilating a formidable body of material and collection of examples.
