translocating

Verb

translocate (third-person singular simple present translocates, present participle translocating, simple past and past participle translocated)

1. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To move or transfer (someone or something) from one place to another; to displace, to relocate, to remove.
   • Unexpectedly, even some of the monoliths are throwing out new shoots. This is great news, as these trees contain ancient woodland DNA, so are a very valuable seedbank. Further along the site, Penny shows me a famous translocated stump … the Cubbington pear tree. […] The stump was translocated, and...2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is Just ‘Passing Through’”, in Rail, number 953, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44
   1. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To move or transfer (an animal) from one place to another, especially as part of a wildlife conservation programme.
2. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To cause (a molecule, substance, etc.) to undergo translocation through a cell membrane or body tissue, usually by an active process.
3. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To cause (a chromosomal segment) to undergo translocation to a different place, especially on a non-homologous chromosome.
4. (intransitive) To move or travel from one place to another; to relocate.
5. (intransitive) Of a molecule, substance, etc.: to undergo translocation through a cell membrane or body tissue, usually by an active process.

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