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 Translation for 'Assimilation' from English to Icelandic
NOUN1   assimilation | -
NOUN2   an assimilation | assimilations
SYNO absorption | acculturation | assimilation
samlögun {kv}assimilation
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Translation for 'Assimilation' from English to Icelandic

assimilation
samlögun {kv}
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Usage Examples English
  • Most instances of apophony develop historically from changes due to phonological assimilation that are later grammaticalized (or morphologized) when the environment causing the assimilation is lost.
  • Initial assimilation of consonants is usually progressive, and may create new phonemes that are not phonemically contrastive in initial position but do contrast in medial position.
  • The main metabolic challenge for methylotrophs is the assimilation of single carbon units into biomass.
  • Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilate the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
  • Assimilation occurs in two different types: complete assimilation, in which the sound affected by assimilation becomes exactly the same as the sound causing assimilation, and partial assimilation, in which the sound becomes the same in one or more features but remains different in other features.

  • Colonization was the pretext for assimilation processes that lasted centuries.
  • Another theory on cultural assimilation centers on the racial/ethnic disadvantage model.
  • The causative prefix "s-" in Wobzi Khroskyabs undergoes various morphophonological processes, including voicing assimilation, lateral dissimilation, affrication, metathesis and lateral assimilation.
  • Assimilation in Balinese occurs within the conjuncts/consonant clusters.
  • After his death, the Kapper-Society was founded; its aim was Czech-Jewish assimilation and opposition to Zionism and German-Jewish assimilation.

  • The syllable that undergoes initial assimilation is the "latter character"; that which precedes it is the "former character".
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