translocation

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-t

Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t

Proto-Indo-European *-ónts

Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts

Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts

Proto-Italic *trāns

Proto-Italic *trāns-

Latin trans-bor.

English trans-

English location

English translocation

translocation (countable and uncountable, plural translocations)

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:
  There happen'd certain translocations at the deluge.
- 2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:
  By taking users to places where they would or could not really go, the technology offered empathy or awe via translocation.
(genetics) A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
(biochemistry) A transfer of a molecule through a membrane.