migration
An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
Noun
- An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
- Seasonal moving of animals, as mammals, birds or fish, especially between breeding and non-breeding areas.
- Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine...
- Movement in general.
- The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.
- Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
- The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.
Origin
From Middle French migration and its source, Latin migrātiō, from the participle stem of migrō (“to migrate”). Morphologically migrate + -ion.
Forms
Related
emigration immigration inmigration in-migration migrant migrate migratory outmigration out-migration porting
Derived
abmigration antimigration chain migration chemomigration climigration comigration countermigration cybermigration ecomigration eco-migration electromigration e-migration endomigration hypermigration intermigration internal migration interregional migration intraregional migration Lessepsian migration loop migration mass migration migrational migrationism migrationist