Assimilation vs. Adaptation

Assimilationnoun

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

Assimilationnoun

The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

Assimilationnoun

(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

Assimilationnoun

(phonology) 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.

Assimilationnoun

The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Assimilationnoun

The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.

Assimilationnoun

The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.

Assimilationnoun

the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

Assimilationnoun

the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

Assimilationnoun

the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

Assimilationnoun

a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

Assimilationnoun

the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

Assimilationnoun

in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance

Assimilationnoun

the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas

Assimilationnoun

the absorption and integration of people, ideas, or culture into a wider society or culture

Assimilationnoun

the absorption and digestion of food or nutrients by the body or any biological system

Assimilationnoun

the process of becoming similar to something

Assimilationnoun

the fact of a sound being made more like another in the same or next word

Adaptationnoun

(uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.

Adaptationnoun

(countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.

Adaptationnoun

The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.

Adaptationnoun

An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.

Adaptationnoun

(uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.

Adaptationnoun

An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.

Adaptationnoun

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.

Adaptationnoun

The result of adapting; an adapted form.

Adaptationnoun

a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form;

Adaptationnoun

the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

Adaptationnoun

(physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

Adaptation

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings. Firstly, it is the dynamic evolutionary process that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness.