0 to become part of a group, country, society, etc., or to make someone or something become part of a group, country, society, etc.:
1 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.
2 to absorb food or a substance into the tissue of a living organism:
3 to take in and make a part of your basic knowledge something learned from others, so that you can use it as your own:
[ T ] Once outsiders, they had now been assimilated into the cultural mainstream.
[ T ] We hoped the students would assimilate the information contained in the lecture.
The information appropriately becomes a tutorial or starting point for interested readers, rather than the definitive reference to be assimilated uncritically.
Generally each society and culture has drugs of choice that have been assimilated to its cultural practices.
Thus, thoughts and perceptions of the trauma may not be fully assimilated and integrated into coherent memories.
Transformations, slight enough so that new objects can be assimilated by their recipients, provide the creative elements on which culture is based.
Translocation of photosynthetically assimilated carbon in tea plants.
Nonetheless, the statement is of importance because it allows us to better appreciate how the opera was seen and its message assimilated.
They have assimilated, in part or in full, many aspects of western culture.
The second process is dominant handshape assimilation, where the clitic retains its movement but assimilates its handshape to that of the host.
