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Noun
/mīˈgrāSHən/,
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migrations, plural;
  1. Seasonal movement of animals from one region to another
    • - this butterfly's annual migration across North America
  2. Movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions
    • - the extensive rural-to-urban migration has created a severe housing shortage
  3. Movement from one part of something to another
    • - there is virtually no cell migration in plants

  1. the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
  2. a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
  3. (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
  4. the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
  5. (migrant) habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers"
  6. (migrant) traveler who moves from one region or country to another
  7. Seasonal human migration is very common in agricultural cycles. It includes migrations such as moving sheep or cattle to higher elevations during summer to escape heat and find more forage. Human labor often moves with fruit harvest, or to other crops that require manual picking.
  8. Migration is the third studio album by The Amboy Dukes. It was released in 1969 on Mainstream Records (stereo S/6118). On this album, Rusty Day replaced John Drake on vocals. The song "I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent" is a cover of the 1956 song by Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers.
  9. Bird migration is the regular seasonal journey undertaken by many species of birds. Bird movements include those made in response to changes in food availability, habitat or weather. ...
  10. A rearrangement reaction is a broad class of organic reactions where the carbon skeleton of a molecule is rearranged to give a structural isomer of the original molecule . Often a substituent moves from one atom to another atom in the same molecule. ...
  11. Human migration is physical movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. ...
  12. (Migrations (album)) Migrations is a 2006 album by The Duhks. It is released under the Sugar Hill Records label.
  13. moving a place to live to another place for a while; seasonal moving for animals, birds or fishes to breed or find a new home; changing a platform from an environment to another one
  14. (migrate) To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons; To change one's geographic pattern of habitation; To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another; To move slowly towards, usually in groups; : To ...
  15. Migrations are a feature of Rails that allow the developer to avoid using SQL to build tables, and to easily move back and forth between various versions of your database schema with very little effort.
  16. (Migrant) A person who leaves his/her country of origin to seek residence in another country.
  17. (Migrant) A species that normally occurs in the Valley only during the well-defined spring and fall migration period.
  18. (Migrant) Japanese term for Dream Chaser
  19. (Migrant) Someone who has chosen to leave their own country and has been accepted by another country for settlement. Often they choose to leave to improve their life situation or reunite with family. They are free to return to their country of origin.
  20. (Migrant) Sometimes used as a catch-all term to describe those who have arrived in Canada with the intention to settle here, though may also be associated with people in the country temporarily to work (temporary migrant).
  21. (Migrant) Term applied to a animal that makes seasonal trips between breeding and wintering areas. The Purple Martin is the earliest tropical-wintering, migrant to return to the North American continent after spending the non-breeding season in South America.
  22. (Migrant) “Any person who lives temporarily or permanently in a country where he or she was not born, and has acquired some significant social ties to this country."[9]
  23. (Migrants) are movers who, on Census Day, were residing in a different CSD one year earlier (internal migrants) or who were living outside Canada one year earlier (external migrants).
  24. (migrants) Cutthroat trout that move at regular intervals, usually seasonally, from natal spawning areas to feeding and refuge areas. Migratory movements may be to the ocean, an estuary, and/or within freshwater rivers and lakes.
  25. (Migrate) To move from one area to another.