Migration vs Nomad - What's the difference?
migration | nomad |
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.
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, title=Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight
, volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48
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Movement in general.
(computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
A member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.
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, title= A wanderer.
As nouns the difference between migration and nomad
is that migration is an instance of moving to live in another place for a while while nomad is a member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.migration
English
Noun
(en noun)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 .}}
- The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.
Derived terms
* stepwise migration * migrate * migratorynomad
English
Noun
(wikipedia nomad) (en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads , wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}