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Migration vs Demigrate - What's the difference?

migration | demigrate |

As a noun migration

is .

As a verb demigrate is

(obsolete) to emigrate or demigrate can be to cancel or return from migration (of eg a computer system).

migration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
  • Seasonal moving for animals, birds or fishes to breed or find a new home.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01
    • , author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore , title=Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight , volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48 , magazine= citation , passage=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 .}}
  • Movement in general.
    • The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.
  • (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.

    • Derived terms

    * stepwise migration * migrate * migratory

    Related terms

    * immigration * porting

    demigrate

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (lena) demigrare.

    Verb

    (demigrat)
  • (obsolete) To emigrate.
    • (Cockeram)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (demigrat)
  • To cancel or return from migration (of e.g. a computer system).
  • * 2002 , Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades (page 196)
    • The reason is that it is more cost effective to debug and troubleshoot the new environment than to demigrate and lose all the data transactions completed under the new technology.
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