how to pronounce assimilation

/əˌsɪm.ɪˈlɛɪ.ʃən/

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assimilation is pronounced in five syllables

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An example use of assimilation in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… quickly move into assimilation what we …”

meanings of assimilation

noun:

The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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.
The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

assimilation frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word assimilation occurs in english on average 2.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics assimilation can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that assimilation can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;