Migration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Migration \Mi*gra"tion\, n. [L. migratio: cf. F. migration.]
     The act of migrating.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  migration
       n 1: the movement of persons from one country or locality to
            another
       2: a group of people migrating together (especially in some
          given time period)
       3: (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical
          from one place to another within a molecule
       4: the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds
          or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or
          breeding

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "migration":
     communication, conduction, contagion, convection, delivery,
     deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, dissemination, emigration,
     expatriation, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, flight,
     immigration, import, importation, in-migration, interchange,
     intermigration, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis,
     mutual transfer, osmosis, out-migration, passage, passing over,
     perfusion, remigration, run, spread, spreading, swarm, swarming,
     transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference,
     transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation,
     transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal,
     transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal,
     transposition, travel, trek