WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
progres′sive assimila′tion, [Phonet.]
  1. Phoneticsassimilation in which a preceding sound has an effect on a following one, as in shortening captain to cap'm rather than cap'n. Cf. regressive assimilation. 
  • 1910–15

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