Unmigrate

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To reverse the process of migration; to switch back to an older system. rare

    "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. 2
    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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From un- + migrate.

More for "unmigrate"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.