Term Gallery logo

Meanings of assimilative in English

Capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution.

Related terms

Assimilative.

Related terms
Usage of assimilative in English
1
What the one lacks in nutritive or assimilative qualities the other supplies.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
2
Or Mr. Waldner's assimilative opinion that he had seen only ice crystals.
The Book of the Damned
3
But as she lagged the assimilative German streamed in through her hospitable door.
The War After the War
4
The digestive and assimilative powers of the old world seemed gone.
The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
5
There was associative apperception, subsumptive apperception, assimilative apperception, and others up to sixteen.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life...
6
They were conscious of the assimilative power their nationality possessed.
The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
7
Treatment may also be given for lack of assimilative power.
Papers on Health
8
The stomach, with its fierce assimilative power, is a great stimulator of commercial activity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 / A Magazi...
9
We show that the mean observed rating exerted a strong assimilative effect on subjective pain.
Pubmed
10
Then his receptivity and assimilative powers are enormous, and he demands these in his reader.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
11
Thirty-five languages are spoken in this city, but the assimilative power of English absorbs them all.
The Lutherans of New York / Their Story and Their Problems
12
Many of these are, in all probability, excretory products of no assimilative value to the plant.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
13
Milk is given in fevers and in other diseases, when the digestive and assimilative processes are suspended.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
14
Scotland taxed for centuries the assimilative capacity of united England; it was too much for Northumbria to digest.
The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution
15
He may therefore quite fail to secure from his beliefs that which they produce in more assimilative natures.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
16
But it is, as I have said, a chief glory of Christianity that it possesses this assimilative power.
The Church and Modern Life
About this term
More collocations
Assimilative through the time