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.
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”
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