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.

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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.

Noun

(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

(countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.

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(countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.

A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

(medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.