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Assimilation or Assimilate may refer to:

Culture

Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group converts to the attitudes and customs of the prevailing culture and customs, abandoning their previous ones
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

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