taxis (root: taxi)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tax=is

CIDE DICTIONARY

taxis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ta`xis a division or arrangement, fr. ta`ssein to arrange.].

•  Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]
•  In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  a reflexive movement by a motile organism by which it moves or orients itself in relation to some source of stimulation; as, chemotaxis, the motion toward or away from gradients of certain chemical compounds.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

taxis, n.
1 Surgery the restoration of displaced bones or organs by manual pressure.
2 Biol. the movement of a cell or organism in response to an external stimulus.
3 Gram. order or arrangement of words.

Etymology

Gk f. tasso arrange

ROGET THESAURUS

taxis

Arrangement

N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.