relocations

Noun

relocation (countable and uncountable, plural relocations)

1. The act of moving from one place to another.
   • Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves […].1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69

   Synonyms:

   move, removal

2. Renewal of a lease.
3. The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at runtime.
   • A peculiarity of ECOFF relocation entries is that even on 32-bit machines, they're 10 bytes long, which means that on machines that require aligned data, the linker can't just load the entire relocation table into a memory array[…]2000, John R. Levine, Linkers and Loaders, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 157