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'Assimilation' (from Latin ''assimilatio''; "to render similar") may refer to more than one article:

★ Assimilation (linguistics), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound.

★ Assimilation (biology), the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption.

★ Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture. For cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States see Americanization (of Native Americans).

★ Jewish assimilation

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★ Assimilation (Star Trek), process used by the fictional ''Star Trek'' Borg race to integrate a being into their collective structure

★ The Zerg method of evolving, also called infest(ing)

★ Media and ethnicity

★ Accommodation

★ In psychoanalysis, a mutual penetration of conscious and unconscious contents

★ In computer science, the modification of anti-virus software to detect a new virus

★ In typesetting, the symmetry property possessed in varying degrees by a typeface that creates mirror relationships and other similarities of form between letters

★ In Superman, the method of being stabbed or injected with kryptonite