—vb (usually foll by into or with) (usually foll by to or with)
1.
(tr) to learn (information, a procedure, etc) and understand it thoroughly
2.
(tr) to absorb (food) and incorporate it into the body tissues
3.
(intr) to become absorbed, incorporated, or learned and understood
4.
to bring or come into harmony; adjust or become adjusted: the new immigrants assimilated easily
5.
to become or cause to become similar
6.
(usually foll by to) phonetics to change (a consonant) or (of a consonant) to be changed into another under the influence of one adjacent to it: (n) often assimilates to before (k), as in ``include''
[C15: from Latin assimilāre to make one thing like another, from similis like, similar]
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.