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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  -taxis \-tax"is\, n.
     combining form for {taxis[3]}.
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Taxis \Tax"is\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ta`xis a division or
     arrangement, fr. ta`ssein to arrange.]
     1. (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an
        intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
        --Dunglison.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar,
        etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. 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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  taxis
       n 1: a locomotor response toward or away from an external
            stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
       2: the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced
          body part

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Taxis
       
          ["A Language Facility for Designing Database-Intensive
          Applications", J. Mylopoulos et al, ACM Trans Database Sys
          5(2):185-207 (June 1980)].
       
       

















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