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Relocation
//ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of moving from one place to another. countable, uncountable
"Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves […]."
- 2 the act of changing your residence or place of business wordnet
- 3 Renewal of a lease. countable, uncountable
- 4 the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) wordnet
- 5 The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at runtime. countable, uncountable
"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[…]"
Etymology
From re- + location.
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