translocation

trans- +‎ location

translocation (countable and uncountable, plural translocations)

1. Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
   • 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 and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC:

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   • 2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic‎:

     By taking users to places where they would or could not really go, the technology offered empathy or awe via translocation.

2. (genetics) A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
3. (biochemistry) A transfer of a molecule through a membrane.

• translocate

• cotranslation, transcolation, triacontanols

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translocation f (plural translocations)

1. translocation

• “translocation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.