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.
The action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
The act of ingesting something into a jet engine.