CHANGE OF LOCATION

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does change of location mean? 

• CHANGE OF LOCATION (noun)
  The noun CHANGE OF LOCATION has 1 sense:

1. a movement through space that changes the location of something

  Familiarity information: CHANGE OF LOCATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGE OF LOCATION (noun)

Meaning:

A movement through space that changes the location of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

change of location; travel

Hypernyms ("change of location" is a kind of...):

motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "change of location"):

ascension ((astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon)

stampede (a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle))

spread; spreading (process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space)

ascension; ascent; rise; rising (a movement upward)

advance; progress; progression (a movement forward)

flow; flowing (the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases))

fall (a movement downward)

entering; entrance (a movement into or inward)

descent (a movement downward)

levitation (movement upward in virtue of lightness)

gravitation (movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction)

creep (a slow longitudinal movement or deformation)

circulation (free movement or passage through a series of vessels (as of water through pipes or sap through a plant))

translation (a uniform movement without rotation)