Definition & Meaning | English word MIGRATION

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Definitions of MIGRATION

1. An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
2. Seasonal moving of animals, as mammals, birds or fish, especially between breeding and non-breeding areas.
3. Movement in general.
4. (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
5. (biochemistry) The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.

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Examples of Using MIGRATION in a Sentence

• It proposes that Celtic culture spread westward and southward from these areas by diffusion or migration.
• The migration rate accelerated during the period of 1979 to 1981, this marked the beginning of the civil unrest and the spread of political killings.
• The largest ethnic group, the Fang, are indigenous to the mainland, but substantial migration to Bioko Island has resulted in Fang dominance over the earlier Bubi inhabitants.
• Hundreds of years after the Great Polynesian Migration, European explorers began traveling through the region, visiting the islands of French Polynesia on several occasions.
• They feature prominently in the Commentaries on the Gallic War, with their failed migration attempt to southwestern Gaul (58 BC) serving as a catalyst for Caesar's conquest of Gaul.
• The phenomenon of migration from Ireland is recorded since the Early Middle Ages, but it can be quantified only from around 1700.
• The population of the country almost doubled during the 20th century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North, due to the Italian economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s.
• From the Frisian coast they went on to settle southern Britain in the later fifth century during the Migration Period, as part of a larger wave of Germanic migration into Britain.
• Due to the heaviest Puerto Rican migration to New York City in the '50s, during the '70s, the birth of hip hop involved Latinos from the Caribbean islands.
• The population of Puerto Rico has been shaped by native American settlement, European colonization especially under the Spanish Empire, slavery and economic migration.
• Their first wave of westward migration is believed to have occurred sometime between the 5th and 11th centuries.
• Rural flight (also known as rural-to-urban migration, rural depopulation, or rural exodus) is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban areas.
• The population of Spain doubled during the twentieth century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural interior to the industrial cities.
• It was seen as low-class food, and African Americans in the North looked down on their Black Southern compatriots who preferred soul food (see the Great Migration).
• The Serengeti hosts the world's most massive land animal migration (in terms of total body weight), which helps secure it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.
• Early Slavs lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th century AD), and came to control large parts of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe between the sixth and seventh centuries.
• Turkic migration, the expansion of the Turkic tribes and Turkic languages, mainly between the 6th and 11th centuries.
• Groups of TFs function in a coordinated fashion to direct cell division, cell growth, and cell death throughout life; cell migration and organization (body plan) during embryonic development; and intermittently in response to signals from outside the cell, such as a hormone.
• Some regions of the world's oceans, along the animals' migration routes, had a particularly dense whale population and became targets for large concentrations of whaling ships, and the industry continued to grow well into the 20th century.
• The 5th century is noted for being a period of migration and political instability throughout Eurasia.

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