The Collaborative International Dictionary
assimilating \assimilating\ adj. tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated).
Syn: assimilative, assimilatory.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of assimilate English)
WordNet
adj. tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated); "an assimilative pattern"; "an assimilative process" [syn: assimilative, assimilatory]
Usage examples of "assimilating".
Previous to that time her doctrinal scheme was inchoate, gradually assimilating foreign elements and developing itself step by step.
If we erase that routine, your probes will start up our nanites but stop short of assimilating them.
It was easily apparent that the security protocols that prevented her nanoprobes from interacting with anything but her own cybernetic implants had been severely damaged, as were the safety interlocks that stopped them from assimilating everything they found into the Borg Collective.
When the captain said your nanoprobes were assimilating the nanites of the Goracar, my first thought was Good!
It is mostly the result of spiritual influence of the assimilating group on the newcomers, which is natural and complete when there are no strong barriers between the groups.
Only a superficial view could attach importance to words, phrases, even vocabularies, or to quaint social customs that the receiving race may adopt from the newcomers in the process of assimilating them.
Perhaps this is because the faculty of understanding is only one manifestation of one type of Life, in other words a part of a part, and is thus unadapted to assimilating the Whole.
The case of America is not a case of assimilating too muchit is a case of not assimilating enough.
When they dissolve, the totality of the assimilating population has increased.
Similarly the numerous groups of recent alien provenance are artificially prevented from assimilating and becoming Americans, since every alien-thinking group in America is serviceable to Culture-distortion.
We should be clear about the limits of the assimilating culture, however.
In short, we the hosts can either change our strategies about assimilating the immigrant flood or, alternatively, remain unchanged but dam the source of the deluge and do so under legal auspices.
Then I slowly, carefully, altered my structure and allowed my body to flow over and around the stone, engulfing it, and assimilating its history.
First they would destroy the indigenous culture and then they would replace it, mimicking the forms they destroyed, assimilating the culture.
And as the body is sustained by absorbing nutrition from matter, so the soul is sustained by assimilating the spiritual substances of the invisible kingdom.