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migration meaning

EN[maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n] [-eɪʃən]
WMigration
  • Migration, Migratory behavior, or Migratory may refer to:
  • Gene migration, a process in evolution and population genetics
  • Animal migration, the physical movement by animals from one area to another
  • Human migration, physical movement by humans from one area to another
  • Bird migration, the regular seasonal journey undertaken by many species of birds
  • Reverse migration (birds), a phenomenon in bird migration
  • Fish migration, the regular journey of fish
  • Insect migration, the seasonal movement of insects
  • Lepidoptera migration, the movement of butterflies and moths
FR migration

    Definition of migration in English Dictionary

  • NounPLmigrationsSUF-ation
    1. An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
      1. Seasonal moving for animals, as birds or fishes, to breed or find a new home.
        1. 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 siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
      2. Movement in general.
        1. The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.
      3. (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
        1. (biochemistry) The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • It is noteworthy that the basement membrane underlining the migrating sheet of the endopinacoderm remains intact subsequent to cell layer migration (Fig 7f ).
            • After deproteination, the migration of the assembled form II DNA will remain unchanged, appearing not to have been supercoiled by nucleosomes.
            • The migration allows mixing of naïve and infected birds, transmission of multiple viruses simultaneously and generation of hetero- and homosubtypic immunity [8 ,11 ].
          2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • This may be due either to the lower interaction with the extracellular matrix, or the lower degradation of biopeptides that stimulate cell migration.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Countable nouns
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          1. fr migration
          2. en migrations
          3. fr migrations
          4. en migrational
          5. en migrationism
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          Meaning of migration for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "migration" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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