Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Translocation has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
the transport of dissolved material within a plant
(genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts
"translocations can result in serious congenital disorders"
Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
This word comes from combining the prefix trans- with location. It originally meant a moving or placing across to a different position.