A Transfer

1. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
2. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
3. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
4. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
5. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
6. (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.

In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. Contrast with transition which is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next.

(act): transferal, transference

(instance): transferal