Trāns/lo-cā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. trans, across, and locatio, a placing; O. Sp. traslocacion, O. It. traslocazione.] Removal of things reciprocally to each other's places; substitution of one thing for another.

There happened certain translocations of animal and vegetable substances at the deluge. Woodward.

Translocation is not destruction. Coleridge.