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translocal

translocal adjective: between locations.

Adjective

translocal (not comparable)

  1. Between locations.
  2. Between points in a space.
    • At the end of the paper we briefly mention the possibility that our network carries a translocal far-order which leads to the concept of wormhole spaces and a scale dependent dimension if the coarse graining procedure is no longer local..2016, Saeed Rastgoo, Manfred Requardt, “Emergent Space-Time via a Geometric Renormalization Method”, in arXiv
  3. Involving a sense of identity split between or blended from multiple locations, especially in multiple ethnic regions.
    • In the following account of ethnographic research carried out in the context of a textual community, I demonstrate how 'translocal phenomena,' which I understand to include diasporic communities and communities that emerge in relation to the mass media and electronic communications, do not entirely...2001, “Sites Unseen: Ethnographic Research in a Textual Community”, in Qualitative Studies in Education, 14.4, p. 568
    • First, I attempt to conceptualize the ethnic restaurant as a translocal space that is characterized by intercultural transfers of foods, technologies, and information, and that functions as a nodal point in transnational networks.2007, German Historical Institute, Bulletin, numbers 40-43, page 80

Origin of translocal

From trans- + local.

Words formed from translocal

Questions about translocal

What does translocal mean?
Translocal means between locations.
What part of speech is translocal?
Translocal is an adjective.

Words near translocal in the dictionary

  1. transloadings
  2. transloads
  3. translobar
  4. translobular
  5. transloc.
  6. translocal
  7. translocalisation
  8. translocalities
  9. translocality
  10. translocalization
  11. translocalizations

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