translocation

About 1.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
2. noun A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
3. noun A transfer of a molecule through a membrane.

Similar words

transfer transport travel displacement transportation carriage autosome movement migration shift

Often followed by

of in and is to from across between into

Word family

translocate translocated translocates translocating translocations