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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. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

racterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.

A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. Blackstone. Wharton. Encyc. Brit.

The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. T…

A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

to weaken. To undersell our rivals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

Pertaining to, or used in, the process of autography; as, autographic ink, paper, or press.

A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone. Ure.

An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.

The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

The art or process of making autotypes.

See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.

Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing. A long and awkward process. Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.

anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.