To move from one place to another, especially seasonally or permanently. Can refer to people, animals, or data moving between systems.
From Latin migratus, past participle of migrare meaning 'to move from one place to another.' The word entered English in the 17th century, initially describing human movement but later extended to animals and abstract concepts.
The word 'migrate' beautifully captures one of nature's most remarkable phenomena - the Arctic tern migrates roughly 44,000 miles annually, experiencing two summers per year as it travels from Arctic to Antarctic and back. In the digital age, we've borrowed this biological term for data migration, showing how language itself migrates across domains of meaning.
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