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translocation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun translocation has 2 senses
- translocation(n = noun.process) Array - the transport of dissolved material within a plant; Array is a kind of biological process, organic process
- translocation(n = noun.process) Array - (genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts; "translocations can result in serious congenital disorders" is a kind of biological process, organic process
Derived form verb translocate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
translocation, n. [Pref. trans- + location.].
removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. [1913 Webster]
"There happened certain translocations at the deluge."
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ROGET THESAURUS
translocation
Transference
N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.
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