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taxis


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Taxis  \Tax"is\,  n. 
  In  technical  uses,  as  in  architecture,  biology,  grammar, 
  etc.,  arrangement;  order  ordonnance. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Taxis  \Tax"is\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  Gr  ta`xis  a  division  or 
  arrangement,  fr  ta`ssein  to  arrange.]  (Surg.) 
  Manipulation  applied  to  a  hernial  tumor,  or  to  an  intestinal 
  obstruction,  for  the  purpose  of  reducing  it  --Dunglison. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  taxis 
  n  :  a  locomotor  response  toward  or  away  from  an  external 
  stimulus 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [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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