This paper concentrates on the study of the assimilationprocess of the Chinese loan words, and pays much attention to the features in each assimilation phase.
If you ever read the course descriptions of French 115 or Chinese language, basic intro to Chinese, they say — I think I wrote it down here, this process of gradual assimilation.
The process of adding another appliance into a collective — appropriately termed "assimilation" — will wipe out any existing data grids on the assimilated appliance.