Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unmigrate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-mi-grate
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To reverse the process of migration; to switch back to an older system.

verb

To work backwards from the point where an observation was made to deduce the location from which it migrated.

Example Sentences

"I could “unmigrate” the tapes, and that would take a while, but it wasn't that much of a nuisance and it helped keep the mainframe's disks free."
"If the line is to be perpendicular to the strike, we can unmigrate the seismic data, as shown in Fig. 21.6, and we then know how far we have to run the seismic line to tie the well data at any given depth."

Etymology

From un- + migrate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

unmigrates (present, singular) unmigrating (participle, present) unmigrated (participle, past) unmigrated (past)

Questions

What does unmigrate mean?: To reverse the process of migration; to switch back to an older system.
Where does unmigrate come from?: From un- + migrate.

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