[Henderson's] n. (1) movement or removal to a different place or habitat; (2) move­ment of material in solution within an organism, esp. in phloem of plant; (3) chro­mosomal rearrangement in which part of a chromosome breaks off and is rejoined to a non-homologous chromosome. see also reciprocal translocation; (4) appl. protein, movement of a protein across a membrane.