From the geology course I took in 1975: Minerals are naturally occurring crystals of compound. Snow is a mineral, but volcanic glass is not. Rocks are amalgams of minerals and non-minerals.
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, collocation is a sub-type of phraseme. An example of a phraseological collocation, as propounded by Michael Halliday, is the expression strong tea.
Translocation may refer to: 1  Translocation: Wiktionary: Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.2  Chromosomal translocation, a chromosome abnormality caused by rearrangement of parts.ranslocation may refer to: 1  Translocation: Wiktionary: Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.