Taxis Definition
tăksĭs
taxes
noun
In ancient Greece, a unit of troops of varying size.
Webster's New World
The movement of a free-moving cell or organism toward or away from some external stimulus.
Webster's New World
The act of replacing a displaced part, as in a dislocation, manually and without cutting any tissue.
Webster's New World
(rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
Wiktionary
Plural form of taxi.
Wiktionary
suffix
Order; arrangement.
Homotaxis.
American Heritage
Responsive movement; taxis.
Chemotaxis.
American Heritage
Origin of Taxis
Greek arrangement from tassein tag- to arrange
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis, “arrangment, order”)
From Wiktionary
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From Greek from taxis taxis
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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ModL < Gr < taxis: see taxis
From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
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See taxi
From Wiktionary
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