Taxis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Biology The responsive movement of a free-moving organism or cell toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light.
  • n. Medicine The moving of a body part by manipulation into normal position, as after a dislocation, fracture, or hernia.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
  • n. The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury.
  • n. The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
  • n. Plural form of taxi.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
  • n. In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
  • n. a reflexive movement by a motile organism by which it moves or orients itself in relation to some source of stimulation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The orientation, locomotion, or migration of a cell or of an organism in relation to an external substance or form of energy.
  • n. In surgery, an operation by which parts which have quitted their natural situation are replaced by manipulation, as in reducing hernia, etc.
  • n. In ancient architecture, that disposition which assigns to every part of a building its just dimensions. It is synonymous with ordonnance in modern architecture.
  • n. In Greek antiquity, a division of troops corresponding more or less closely to the modern battalion; also, a larger division of an army, as a regiment or a brigade.
  • n. In zoology, classification; taxonomy; taxology.
  • n. In grammar and rhetoric, arrangement; order.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
  • n. a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    operation    surgical procedure    surgical process    surgery    surgical operation   
    Variant
    taxes   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    order    ordonnance   
    Verb Stem
    taxi   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    axes    maxis   
     
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