Absorption is a condition in which something takes in another substance. The process of absorption means that a substance captures and transforms energy. The absorbent distributes the material it captures throughout whole and adsorbent only distributes it through the surface.

A notable example of forced assimilation is also imperial Japan’s policy in Formosa (Taiwan) and Korea. Children were placed in Japanese-language schools, and encouraged to identify as Japanese; in this way, Japan hoped to nearly double its population. Forced assimilation is an ancient custom in Europe as well.

Assimilation, in anthropology and sociology, the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society. Assimilation does not denote “racial” or biological fusion, though such fusion may occur.

Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism. In animals, it normally is accomplished by taking in a substance through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract; such as through eating or drinking. Ingestion is a common route taken by pathogenic organisms and poisons entering the body.

Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori (the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth) is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm.

Propulsion is the action or process of pushing or pulling to drive an object forward. The term is derived from two Latin words: pro, meaning before or forward; and pellere, meaning to drive.

Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds. A common type of phonological process across languages, assimilation can occur either within a word or between words.