Definition of "translocation"

translocation

noun
countable and uncountable, plural translocations
1. Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
  Quotations
  There happen'd certain translocations at the deluge.
  1728–1729, J[ohn] Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; […], (please specify |tome=I or II), London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […]
  By taking users to places where they would or could not really go, the technology offered empathy or awe via translocation.
  2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic‎
2. (genetics) A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
3. (biochemistry) A transfer of a molecule through a membrane.