translocation

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Definition of translocation

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.

“There happen'd certain translocations at the deluge.”
“By taking users to places where they would or could not really go, the technology offered empathy or awe via translocation.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.

“There happen'd certain translocations at the deluge.”
“By taking users to places where they would or could not really go, the technology offered empathy or awe via translocation.”
(countable, uncountable)A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
(countable, uncountable)A transfer of a molecule through a membrane.

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From trans- + location.

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