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migration vs movement

movement vs migration

migration and movement both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
migration Yes No No No
movement Yes No No No
As nouns, movement is a hypernym of migration; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than migration:
  • migration: the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
  • movement: the act of changing location from one place to another
Other hypernyms of migration include motion, move.
migration (noun) movement (noun)
the movement of persons from one country or locality to another a change of position that does not entail a change of location
the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding the act of changing the location of something
(chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) the act of changing location from one place to another
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a euphemism for defecation
Difference between migration and movement

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