The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
An object that separates two spaces.
The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
The place at which a division occurs.
An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.