Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by or causing assimilation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by assimilation; capable of assimilating or of causing assimilation: as, assimilative substances or organs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to, or characterized by,
assimilation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution
- adjective capable of mentally absorbing
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Examples
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What started as a celebration of cultural distinctiveness is now benignly assimilative.
Where Riot Is Transposed Into Play Sam Leith 2011
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Remember, doe permits and hunter kill goals set by the DNR keep the herd down to a target goal best to meet the assimilative carrying capacity of the land and keep car accidents down.
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Remember, doe permits and hunter kill goals set by the DNR keep the herd down to a target goal best to meet the assimilative carrying capacity of the land and keep car accidents down.
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A constitution may, the Court explained at p. 259, “seek to ensure that vulnerable minority groups are endowed with the institutions and rights necessary to maintain and promote their identities against the assimilative pressures of the majority.”
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They are both, to the core, celebrations of Americanism, great assimilative affirmations.
Pilgrims in Beirut, Pumpkin Pie in Manhattan Fouad Ajami 2010
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A post-assimilative society is one in which the liberal democracts, Canadians, are borne into a kind of hegemonic thirst for preservation, where none existed before the advent of progressivism.
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A post-assimilative society is one in which the liberal democracts, Canadians, are borne into a kind of hegemonic thirst for preservation, where none existed before the advent of progressivism.
Progressivism Challenges Liberal Democracy « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Translate, for the "assimilative space" opened up through the translation of complex texts carries a greater learning potential than reading poetry written in one's native language.
Anis Shivani: What Is the State of American Poetry? Leading American Poets Speak 2010
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More recently and more succinctly, Daly says ‘following Mill we might define a SSE as an economy with constant population and constant stock of capital, maintained by a low rate of throughput that is within the regenerative and assimilative capacities of the ecosystem.’
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Herman Daly and the Steady State Economy 2009
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Waste emission rates should equal the natural assimilative capacities of the ecosystems into which the waste are emitted.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Herman Daly and the Steady State Economy 2009
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