taxis

Plural: taxes

Noun

• a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
• the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
• The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
• The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.
• The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
• arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
• A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.
• plural of taxi

Verb

• third-person singular simple present indicative of taxi

Synonyms

cab, hack, reduction, taxi, taxicab

Related Words

kinesis, tropism