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translocation

French, noun\tʁɑ̃s.lo.ka.sjɔ̃\

translocation is a French feminine noun meaning “translocation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Clivage d’un segment de génome suivi de son intégration en un autre site”.

What does translocation mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininetranslocation

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Clivage d’un segment de génome suivi de son intégration en un autre site. 2. Opération chirurgicale consistant à modifier le trajet d’un tendon pour en changer la fonction. 3. Aberration chromosomique consistant en la cassure d’un segment de chromosome qui se fixe sur un chromosome non homologue. 4. Processus de transfert des feuilles vers les autres organes de la plante.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of translocation

  • translocations plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce translocation?

  • \tʁɑ̃s.lo.ka.sjɔ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to translocation

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is translocation in French?

translocation appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).