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relocation

noun
/ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

From re- + location.

  1. borrowed from locatio
  2. prefixed as relocation — “re- + location”

Definitions

  1. The act of moving from one place to another.

    • The work to deliver an 18tph service involves relocation of four signals and associated equipment to improve signal spacing.
    • He was also entitled to a relocation payment but has chosen not to take it.

  2. Renewal of a lease.

  3. The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at runtime.

    • 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[…]

The neighborhood

Derived

photorelocation, relocational

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at relocation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at relocation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at relocation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA