Definitions of migration:

  • noun:   the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
  • noun:   the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
  • noun:   (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
  • noun:   a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)