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Assimilation

Assimilation occurs when one organization willingly gives up its culture and is absorbed by the culture of the acquirer or the dominant partner.


Assimilation piaget's is the  term for the way children absorb experiencesfrom their environment and give them meaning within.


 

Assimilation is the public absorption of a new issue of stocks once the stock has been completely sold by
underwriter.

Webster Dictionary Meaning

1. Assimilation
- The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.
- The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.
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