taxis

From Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangment, order”)

• enPR: tăkʹsĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈtæksɪs/

taxis (plural taxes)

1. (biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
2. (medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury.
3. (rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
4. arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
5. (historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.

Distinguished from tropism in that in a tropism, the organism is not motile, and simply turns or grows towards or away from stimulus (e.g., plants, fungi), while in a taxis, the organism has motility and moves towards or away from stimulus (e.g., bacteria, animals). Distinguished from a kinesis in that a kinesis is non-directional movement, while a taxis is directional.

• kinesis
• tropism

See taxi.

• taxies

• enPR: tăkʹsēz, IPA^(key): /ˈtæksiz/

taxis

1. plural of taxi

taxis

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taxi

taxis

1. plural of taxi

taxis m

1. plural of taxi

taxīs

1. dative plural of taxus
2. ablative plural of taxus

• taxis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• taxis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• taxis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

taxis

1. plural of taxi

taxis

1. indefinite genitive singular of taxi