relocation

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English

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Etymology

From re- +‎ location.

Pronunciation

Noun

relocation (countable and uncountable, plural relocations)

  1. The act of moving from one place to another.
    Synonyms: move, removal
    • 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69:
      Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [] .
    • 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 28:
      The work to deliver an 18tph service involves relocation of four signals and associated equipment to improve signal spacing.
    • 2020 June 17, “Network News: Byford appointed to top London transport post”, in Rail, page 16:
      He was also entitled to a relocation payment but has chosen not to take it.
  2. Renewal of a lease.
  3. (computing) The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at runtime.
    • 2000, John R. Levine, Linkers and Loaders, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 157:
      A peculiarity of ECOFF relocation entries is that even on 32-bit machines, they're 10 bytes long, which means that on machines that require aligned data, the linker can't just load the entire relocation table into a memory array []

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French

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Etymology

From re- +‎ location.

Pronunciation

Noun

relocation f (plural relocations)

  1. relocation (all senses)

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