translocation

English

Etymology

trans- +‎ location

Noun

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:

     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.

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.

Derived terms

• posttranslocation
• retranslocation
• retrotranslocation
• Robertsonian translocation
• translocational

 

Related terms

• translocate

Translations

displacement, substitution

• Finnish: siirto (fi), siirtäminen (fi) (displacement); korvaaminen (fi) (substitution)
• Indonesian: translokasi (id)
• Spanish: traslado (es), translocación

genetics: transfer of chromosomal segment

• Dutch: translocatie (nl) f
• Finnish: translokaatio
• French: translocation (fr)
• Indonesian: translokasi (id)
• Italian: traslocazione (it)
• Portuguese: translocação
• Spanish: traslocación

Anagrams

• cotranslation, transcolation, triacontanols

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

translocation f (plural translocations)

1. translocation

Further reading

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