Meaning of MIGRATION
| Pronunciation: | | mI'greyshun
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- [n] the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- [n] the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
- [n] (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
- [n] a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
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| | See Also: | | emigration, event, expatriation, gold rush, immigration, in-migration, motion, move, movement, out-migration, people, periodic event, recurrent event | |
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| | Definition: | | \Mi*gra"tion\, n. [L. migratio: cf. F. migration.]
The act of migrating.
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| | Related Terms: | | communication, conduction, contagion, convection, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, dissemination, emigration, expatriation, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, flight, immigration, import, importation, in-migration, interchange, intermigration, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, mutual transfer, osmosis, out-migration, passage, passing over, perfusion, remigration, run, spread, spreading, swarm, swarming, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel, trek |
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