migration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The movement of people from one country or area to another to live.

   Economic hardship led to a large migration to the cities.

2. 2
   noun

   The regular seasonal movement of animals, especially birds or fish, from one region to another.

   The annual migration of the birds takes them thousands of kilometres south.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of moving data or systems from one platform to another.

   The migration of all the files to the new server took two days.

From Middle French migration and its source, Latin migrātiō, from the participle stem of migrō (“to migrate”). Morphologically migrate + -ion.

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