Example: "An assimilative substance"
To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
Example: "Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue."
To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
Example: "The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said."
To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
Example: "The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race."
To compare to something similar.
To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
To become similar.
To be incorporated or absorbed into something.