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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Biology The responsive movement of a free-moving organism or cell toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light.
  • noun Medicine The moving of a body part by manipulation into normal position, as after a dislocation, fracture, or hernia.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The orientation, locomotion, or migration of a cell or of an organism in relation to an external substance or form of energy.
  • noun In surgery, an operation by which parts which have quitted their natural situation are replaced by manipulation, as in reducing hernia, etc.
  • noun In ancient architecture, that disposition which assigns to every part of a building its just dimensions. It is synonymous with ordonnance in modern architecture.
  • noun In Greek antiquity, a division of troops corresponding more or less closely to the modern battalion; also, a larger division of an army, as a regiment or a brigade.
  • noun In zoology, classification; taxonomy; taxology.
  • noun In grammar and rhetoric, arrangement; order.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
  • noun In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
  • noun a reflexive movement by a motile organism by which it moves or orients itself in relation to some source of stimulation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of taxi.
  • noun biology The movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
  • noun medicine The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury.
  • noun rhetoric The arrangement of the parts of a topic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
  • noun a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek, arrangement, from tassein, tag-, to arrange.]

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See taxi

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From Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis, "arrangment, order")

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