Meanings
noundemigration (countable and uncountable, plural demigrations)
plural demigrations
- countableobsoleteuncountableemigration
put ourselves from the side of Eden, into the land of Nod, that is, of demigration?
1617, Joseph Hall, Quo Vadis? A just Censure of Travel - countableuncountablegeographythe process of reversing seismic migration, transforming a depth-migrated (or time-migrated) image back into a simulated unmigrated seismic time section (data domain)
Origin
- Latindemigratio
- Englishdemigration
From Latin demigratio.
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