relocation

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relocation

  • /ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən/

noun relocations

  1. countable, uncountable The act of moving from one place to another. Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves […].

    Similar: move, removal

  2. countable, uncountable Renewal of a lease.
  3. countable, uncountable The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at runtime. A peculiarity of ECOFF relocation entries is that even on 32-bit machines, they're 10 bytes long, which means that on machines that require aligned data, the linker can't just load the entire relocation table into a memory array[…]

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: transplantation, resettlement, moving, resettle, rehousing, relocate, migration, transmigration, transfer, emigration, delocalization, delocalisation, move, rendition, transferring, handover

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noun moving to another place

Españolmudanza, traslado, reubicación, translado, mudamiento (disused)
한국어이사 isa, 이동 idong
日本語移転 iten, 移動 idō, 引っ越し hikkoshi
中文搬遷 /搬迁 bānqiān, 移動 /移动 yídòng
Françaisdéménagement, délocalisation
DeutschUmzug, Übersiedlung, Umsiedlung
Italianotramutamento
Русскийпереселе́ние pereselénije, перемеще́ние peremeščénije, релока́ция relokácija, перее́зд perejézd

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@misc{relocation_2026,
  title = {relocation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/relocation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}