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  • verb Present participle of translocate.

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Examples

  • Electron micrograph of the protein translocating channel (the

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 1999

  • Or whether more drastic measures - such as translocating a species (capturing and moving it) - are necessary.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2009

  • Efforts are underway to create additional Javan rhino breeding groups by translocating a few individuals from Ujung Kulon to another suitable site.

    May « 2008 « Isegoria 2008

  • Efforts are underway to create additional Javan rhino breeding groups by translocating a few individuals from Ujung Kulon to another suitable site.

    Rarest rhinoceros wrecks camera « Isegoria 2008

  • Here we use PSI-BLAST searches to show that some noncalatytic components are also conserved between type III secretion systems and proton-translocating ATPases.

    Congratulations are in Order 2006

  • "Anybody who has a vehicle, netting and a dart gun is potentially in business, and because of the huge growth in the wildlife industry, translocating wild animals has attracted a large number of unqualified operators whose only concern is to make money," writes wildlife expert Ian Michler in Africa Geographic, a local monthly.

    Call Of The Not-So-Wild 2007

  • After translocating from some system eighty light-years away to our Oort Cloud, it had traveled to here at half the speed of light while the contact ships headed to Earth.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Thereafter, attempts started to drop off, not because of any reduction in terrorist lunacy, but because of a huge increase in security when a balek (those floating LGAs that look like great big apple cores) off-handedly mentioned what incredible restraint the pathuns -- beings capable of translocating planet Earth into its own sun -- were showing.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • This would include building a predator sensing system, maintaining anti-poaching operations, and translocating wildlife as part of the transfrontier conservation programme.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • The longest known continuous operation documented prior to the space-time shift translocating the colonizing/planoforming expedition ... was eighty-seven elapsed standard Anglo-Rationalist years.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

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