Usually means: Movement of genes between chromosomes.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. translocation: Merriam-Webster
  2. translocation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. translocation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. translocation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. translocation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Translocation, translocation: Wordnik
  7. translocation: Wiktionary
  8. translocation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. translocation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. translocation: Dictionary.com
  11. Translocation (Wildlife conservation), Translocation (botany), Translocation (disambiguation), Translocation (genetics), Translocation (wildlife conservation), Translocation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Translocation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. translocation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. translocation: Rhymezone
  15. Translocation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. translocation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. translocation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. translocation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. translocation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. translocation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. translocation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. translocation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Translocation: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. translocation: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. translocation: Medical dictionary
  8. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Translocation: Biology dictionary
  4. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  7. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

(Note: See translocate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (translocation)

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

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