Meaning of assimilate in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• Something that is or has been assimilated.

verb

• To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

  Example: Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.

• To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.

  Example: The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.

• To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.

  Example: The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.

• To compare to something similar.

• To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

• To become similar.

• To be incorporated or absorbed into something.