Defenition of the word migration
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Defenition of the word migration
- The act, for living things, of moving from one biome to another.
- the movement of a group of people from one country or locality to another
- the periodic passage from one region to another for feeding or breeding
- the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
- (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
- a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
Hyponyms for the word migration
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- emigration
- expatriation
- gold rush
- immigration
- in-migration
- out-migration
Hypernyms for the word migration
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- event
- group action
- motion
- move
- movement
- people
- periodic event
- recurrent event
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