Migration

Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to:

Natural sciences

Ecology and animal behaviour

  • Migration (ecology), the large-scale movement of species from one environment to another; a page linking to several sub-topics
  • Human migration, physical movement by humans from one area to another
    • International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum length of time
  • Plant migration, see Seed dispersal, the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant

Biology

Other uses in natural sciences

Information technology

  • Data migration, the process of transferring data between storage types, formats, or computer systems
  • Schema migration, the management of incremental, reversible changes to relational database schemas
  • Software migration, the conversion, rewriting or porting of a legacy system to a modern computer systems
  • System migration, the tasks involved when moving data and applications from current hardware to new hardware

Arts and media

Music

Other media

Other uses

  • Piercing migration, in body modification, a process that occurs when a body piercing moves from its initial location

See also

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