Assimilation vs. Accommodation: What’s the Difference?

  • Assimilation (noun)

    The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

  • Assimilation (noun)

    The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

  • Assimilation (noun)

    The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

  • Assimilation (noun)

    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.

  • Assimilation (noun)

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

  • Accommodation (noun)

    Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    Adaptation or adjustment.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    Adaptation or adjustment.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    The application of a writer’s language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    A loan of money.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    An accommodation bill or note.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

  • Accommodation (noun)

    Modifications to make one’s way of speaking similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

Wiktionary
  • Assimilation (noun)

    the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas

    “the assimilation of the knowledge of the Greeks”

  • Assimilation (noun)

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

    “the assimilation of Italians into American society”

  • Assimilation (noun)

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

    “nitrate assimilation usually takes place in leaves”

  • Assimilation (noun)

    the process of becoming similar to something

    “Watson was ready to work for the assimilation of Scots law to English law where he thought it was justified”

  • Assimilation (noun)

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

    “there are many assimilations and elisions of consonants and vowels”

    “when p is preceded by some Latin prefixes, it is doubled because of the assimilation of a consonant, as in ‘apparent’ (ad-parent)”

  • Accommodation (noun)

    a room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay

    “they were living in temporary accommodation”

  • Accommodation (noun)

    lodgings, sometimes also including board

    “the company offers a number of guest house accommodations in Oberammergau”

  • Accommodation (noun)

    the available space for occupants in a building, vehicle, or vessel

    “there was lifeboat accommodation for 1,178 people”

  • Accommodation (noun)

    the provision of a room or lodgings

    “the building is used exclusively for the accommodation of guests”

  • Accommodation (noun)

    a convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise

    “the prime minister was seeking an accommodation with Labour”

  • Accommodation (noun)

    the process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something

    “accommodation to a separate political entity was not possible”

  • Accommodation (noun)

    the automatic adjustment of the focus of the eye by flattening or thickening of the lens

    “the power of accommodation to near objects”

Oxford Dictionary

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