relocation

Noun

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...
   • The work to deliver an 18tph service involves relocation of four signals and associated equipment to improve signal spacing. - 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 28:
   • He was also entitled to a relocation payment but has chosen not to take it. - 2020 June 17, “Network News: Byford appointed to top London transport post”, in Rail, page 16:

   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...