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unmigrate

verb

Etymology

From un- + migrate.

  1. borrowed from migrātus
  2. prefixed as unmigrate — “un + migrate”

Definitions

  1. To reverse the process of migration

    To reverse the process of migration; to switch back to an older system.

    • I could “unmigrate” the tapes, and that would take a while, but it wasn't that much of a nuisance and it helped keep the mainframe's disks free.

  2. To work backwards from the point where an observation was made to deduce the location…

    To work backwards from the point where an observation was made to deduce the location from which it migrated.

    • If the line is to be perpendicular to the strike, we can unmigrate the seismic data, as shown in Fig. 21.6, and we then know how far we have to run the seismic line to tie the well data at any given depth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unmigrate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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