Assimilation
# Assimilation

Assimilation or Assimilate may refer to:

## Culture

* Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs
   * Language shift, also known as language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language
   * Cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States
   * Jewish assimilation refers to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture
   * Religious assimilation refers to the adoption of a majority or dominant culture's religious practices and beliefs by a minority or subordinate culture
* Assimilation effect, a frequently observed bias in social cognition
* Assimilation (French colonial), an ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries

## Science

* Assimilation (biology) the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption
* Assimilation (phonology), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
* Data assimilation, updating a numerical model with observed data
* Assimilation (psychology), incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes
* Assimilation (geology), incorporation of external materials into a batch of magma during igneous differentiation

## Media

* Assimilation (album), a 2001 album by Deliverance
* Assimilation (Star Trek), fictional process used by the Borg race
* Assimilate, a 2019 sci-fi horror film
* Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, a 2013 non-fiction book
