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population shift vs transmutation

transmutation vs population shift

population shift and transmutation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
population shift Yes No No No
transmutation Yes No No No
As nouns, transmutation is a hypernym of population shift; that is, transmutation is a word with a broader meaning than population shift:
  • population shift: a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population
  • transmutation: a qualitative change
Other hypernyms of population shift include shift, transformation.
population shift (noun) transmutation (noun)
a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
a qualitative change
(physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)
Difference between population shift and transmutation

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