taxis
/ˈtæksɪs/noun
(pl. taxes /-siːz/)
1
- mass noun Surgery the restoration of displaced bones or organs by manual pressure alone【外科】整复（法）。
2
- count noun Biology a motion or orientation of a cell, organism, or part in response to an external stimulus【生】趋性, 趋避性。比较KINESIS.
3
- mass noun Linguistics the systematic arrangement of linguistic units (phonemes, morphemes, words, phrases, or clauses) in linear sequence【语言学】配列, 排列。
词源
mid 18th cent. (in sense 1)： from Greek, literally 'arrangement', from tassein 'arrange'. Sense 2 dates from the late 19th cent.