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taxis - 11 dictionary results

tax⋅is

1[tak-sis]
–noun, plural tax⋅es [tak-seez] .
1. arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences.
2. Biology. oriented movement of a motile organism in response to an external stimulus, as toward or away from light.
3. Surgery. the replacing of a displaced part, or the reducing of a hernia or the like, by manipulation without cutting.
4. Architecture. the adaptation to the purposes of a building of its various parts.

Origin:
1720–30; < NL < Gk táxis, equiv. to tak- (base of tássein to arrange, put in order) + -sis -sis

tax⋅is

2[tak-seez]
–noun
a pl. of taxi.

-taxis

a combining form representing taxis1 in compound words: heterotaxis.
Compare tax-, taxi-, taxo-, -taxy.

tax⋅i

[tak-see] noun, plural tax⋅is or tax⋅ies, verb, tax⋅ied, tax⋅i⋅ing or tax⋅y⋅ing.
–noun
1. a taxicab.
–verb (used without object)
2. to ride or travel in a taxicab.
3. (of an airplane) to move over the surface of the ground or water under its own power.
–verb (used with object)
4. to cause (an airplane) to taxi.

Origin:
1905–10, Americanism; short for taxicab
tax·i   (tāk'sē)   
n.   pl. tax·is or tax·ies
A taxicab.
v.   tax·ied (tāk'sēd), tax·i·ing or tax·y·ing, tax·ies or tax·is (tāk'sēz)

v.   intr.
  1. To be transported by taxi.
  2. To move slowly on the ground or on the surface of the water before takeoff or after landing: an airplane taxiing down the runway.
v.   tr.
  1. To transport by or as if by taxi: taxied the children to dance class; taxi documents to a law office.
  2. To cause (an aircraft) to taxi.

[Short for taximeter or taxicab.]
tax·is   (tāk'sĭs)   
n.   pl. tax·es (tāk'sēz)
  1. Biology The responsive movement of a free-moving organism or cell toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light.
  2. Medicine The moving of a body part by manipulation into normal position, as after a dislocation, fracture, or hernia.

[Greek, arrangement, from tassein, tag-, to arrange.]

Taxis

Tax"is\, n. In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.

Taxis

Tax"is\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ta`xis a division or arrangement, fr. ta`ssein to arrange.] (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. --Dunglison.
Language Translation for : taxis
Spanish: taxi,
German: das Taxi,
Japanese: タクシー

Main Entry: tax·is
Pronunciation: 'tak-s&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural tax·es /-"sEz/
1 : the manual restoration of a displaced body part; specifically : the reduction of a hernia manually
2 a : reflex translational or orientational movement by a freelymotile and usually simple organism in relation to a source of stimulation (as a light or a temperature or chemical gradient) b : a reflex reaction involving a taxis

taxis tax·is (tāk'sĭs)
n. pl. tax·es (tāk'sēz)

  1. The responsive movement of a free-moving organism or cell toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light.
  2. The moving of a body part by manipulation into normal position, as after a dislocation.

Taxis
["A Language Facility for Designing Database-Intensive Applications", J. Mylopoulos et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 5(2):185-207 (June 1980)].

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