Assimilate vs. Absorption
Assimilateverb
(transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
Assimilateverb
(transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
Assimilateverb
(transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
Assimilateverb
(transitive) To compare to something similar.
Assimilateverb
(transitive) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
Assimilateverb
(intransitive) To become similar.
Assimilateverb
(intransitive) To be incorporated or absorbed into something.
Assimilatenoun
Something that is or has been assimilated.
Assimilateverb
To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
Assimilateverb
To liken; to compa e.
Assimilateverb
To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
Assimilateverb
To become similar or like something else.
Assimilateverb
To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
Assimilateverb
To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
Assimilateverb
take up mentally;
Assimilateverb
become similar to one's environment;
Assimilateverb
make similar;
Assimilateverb
take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
Assimilateverb
become similar in sound;
Absorptionnoun
The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
Absorptionnoun
(obsolete) engulfing; swallowing up, as of bodies or land.
Absorptionnoun
assimilate; incorporation.
Absorptionnoun
the imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action, of radiant energy; the process of being neutrons being absorbed by the nucleus; interception.
Absorptionnoun
(physiology) in living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs; taking in by various means, such as by osmosis.
Absorptionnoun
Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind.
Absorptionnoun
Mental assimilation.
Absorptionnoun
(electrical engineering) The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced to the dielectric.
Absorptionnoun
The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
Absorptionnoun
An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
Absorptionnoun
In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.
Absorptionnoun
Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.
Absorptionnoun
(chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
Absorptionnoun
(physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium;
Absorptionnoun
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
Absorptionnoun
the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
Absorptionnoun
complete attention; intense mental effort
Absorptionnoun
the mental state of being preoccupied by something
