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. Definition. noun. (1) A change of location; displacement; a transfer of location. (2) (genetics) Chromosomal translocation, that is a chromosomal segment is moved from one position to another, either within the same chromosome or to another chromosome.