taxis en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- tăkʹsĭs
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈtæksɪs/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement, order”).
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
- (countable, uncountable) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.
- (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
- (countable, uncountable) arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
- (countable, historical, uncountable) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| taxes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
tropotaxis · tria-taxis · chronotaxis · telotaxis · hemotaxis · sonotaxis · anemotaxis · thermotaxis · biotaxis · magnetotaxis · rheotaxis · ligamentotaxis · odortaxis · haptotaxis · phototaxis · adipotaxis · heterotaxis · necrotaxis · electrotaxis · thigmotaxis · aerotaxis · stereotaxis · ecotaxis · hypotaxis · shearotaxis · osmotaxis · phonotaxis · anataxis · phobotaxis · elasticotaxis · galvanotaxis · heliotaxis · fluxotaxis · phyllotaxis · hydrotaxis · metataxis · clinotaxis · polarotaxis · klinotaxis · eosinotaxis · barotaxis · cytotaxis · immunotaxis · geotaxis · mechanotaxis · oxytaxis · caulotaxis · hygrotaxis · parataxis · scototaxis · rhizotaxis · gyrotaxis · homotaxis · zygotaxis · gravitaxis · lymphotaxis · chemotaxis · leukotaxis · mnemotaxis · infotaxis
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Translations (16)
hu helyre tevés (medicine, surgery: movement of a body part; resetting) · tl biling (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · tr taktizm (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · hu helyretétel (medicine, surgery: movement of a body part; resetting) · el ανάταξη (medicine, surgery: movement of a body part; resetting) · bg реакция (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · bg наместване (medicine, surgery: movement of a body part; resetting) · ga luadar (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · fi taksia (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · hu taxis (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · ca taxi (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · el τροπισμός (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · cmn 趨性 /趋性 (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · tr taksis (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · ru таксис (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus) · ru реакция (biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus)