Migration
[maɪ'greɪʃ(ə)n] or [maɪ'ɡreʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the movement of persons from one country or locality to another.
(noun.) the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding.
(noun.) (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule.
(noun.) a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period).
Typed by Clint--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of migrating.
Editor: Simon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Change of residence (from one country to another).
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Examples
- Change of climate must have had a powerful influence on migration. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation with subsequent migration, and calls in the agency of a miracle. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The exact lines of migration cannot be indicated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Being a hunter, he was obliged to follow the migrations of his ordinary quarry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Increasing trade and travel, colonizations, migrations and wars, had broadened the intellectual horizon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The season lasts till the end of June, when the cod commence their migrations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Oh yes, said Will, laughing, and migrations of races and clearings of forests--and America and the steam-engine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Shane