Translocation \Trans`lo*ca"tion\, n. [Pref. trans- + location.]
removal of things from one place to another; substitution of
one thing for another.
There happened certain translocations at the deluge.
--Woodward.
translocation
n 1: the transport of dissolved material within a plant
2: (genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts; "translocations
can result in serious congenital disorders"