Meaning & use
migration
The movement of people or animals from one region or habitat to another, often seasonally.
See it in a sentence
The annual migration of wildebeest across the Serengeti attracts tourists from around the world.
Economic hardship drove the migration of thousands of families to larger cities.
A note on using this word
Migration can describe both the seasonal movement of animals and the longer-term relocation of people, and even data moving between computer systems.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
The process of moving data or software from one computer system to another.
The IT team scheduled the database migration for the weekend to avoid downtime.
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