translocation

1. 1.

   the transport of dissolved material within a plant

   Broaderorganic process
2. 2.

   (genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts

   “translocations can result in serious congenital disorders”

   Broaderorganic process

   genetics

Other forms of translocation

plural

translocations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about translocation

What does translocation mean?

translocation means "the transport of dissolved material within a plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in translocation?

translocation has 5 syllables: tran-slo-ca-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

Is translocation a common word?

translocation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.