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translocation

translocation noun: removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.

Noun

translocation (countable and uncountable, plural translocations)

  1. Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
    • There happen'd certain translocations at the deluge.1728–1729, J[ohn] Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; […], !(please specify |tome=I or II), London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn...
    • By taking users to places where they would or could not really go, the technology offered empathy or awe via translocation.2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic
  2. A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
  3. A transfer of a molecule through a membrane.

translocation meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

translocation in Tamil

இடம் மாறுதல், கடத்தல், கொண்டுசெல்லல், இடப்பெயர்வு

translocation in Indonesian

displacement, substitution
translokasi
genetics: transfer of chromosomal segment
translokasi

Forms of translocation

pluraltranslocations

Plural of translocation: translocations

Origin of translocation

From trans- + location.

Words formed from translocation

Questions about translocation

What does translocation mean?
Translocation means removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
What is translocation in Tamil?
Translocation in Tamil is இடம் மாறுதல், கடத்தல், கொண்டுசெல்லல். See Translocation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is translocation?
Translocation is a noun.
What is the plural of translocation?
The plural of translocation is translocations.

Words near translocation in the dictionary

  1. translocatable
  2. translocate
  3. translocated
  4. translocates
  5. translocating
  6. translocation
  7. translocational
  8. translocationally
  9. translocations
  10. translocative
  11. translocatives

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: translocation (page history and authors); translocation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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