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Translocation vs Teleportation - What's the difference?

translocation | teleportation |

As nouns the difference between translocation and teleportation

is that translocation is removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another while teleportation is teleportation.

translocation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
    • There happened certain translocations at the deluge. — Woodward.
  • (genetics) A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.

    • Related terms

    * translocate

    Anagrams

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    teleportation

    English

    (wikipedia teleportation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

    • Derived terms

    * quantum teleportation