Unmigrate

Quick meaning: Unmigrate is a verb meaning (computing, rare) To reverse the process of migration; to switch back to an older system.

Meaning

(computing, rare) To reverse the process of migration; to switch back to an older system.

More Meanings

1. 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.

Word Forms

• unmigrates
• unmigrating
• unmigrated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include demigrate, downgrade, unmount, unconvert, unmove, untransform.

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