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Taxis logo #10101) Airport circlers 2) Airport hacks 3) Airport line 4) Airport lineup 5) Approaches a gate 6) Approaches a terminal 7) Checkers, often 8) City cabs 9) City cars 10) City hacks 11) Coordinate system reference 12) Curb waiters 13) Downtown rides 14) Fleet near an airport 15) Forms of transport 16) Goes from gate to runway
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Taxis logo #10101) Cabs 2) Chemotaxis
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Taxis logo #21000 A taxis ([tax-is], plural taxes z, from the Ancient Greek τάξις meaning `arrangement`) is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food. Taxes are innate behavioral responses. A taxis differs from a tropism (turning response, often growth towards or away from a stimulus) in that the organism has.....
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taxis logo #22641movement of a whole organism
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Taxis logo #21594(1) battle order; (2) military unit; regiment.
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Taxis logo #21002• (n.) In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance. • (n.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
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taxis logo #21003(from the article `locomotion`) In taxis, an animal orients itself in a specific spatial relationship to a stimulus. The orientation may be simply an alteration of body position or ... Behaviour may be quite simple, as in taxis (movement toward or away from a stimulus) and kinesis (undirected response proportional to the intensity ... ...
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Taxis logo #20764Military unit.
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taxis logo #20973<cell biology> A response in which the direction of movement is affected by an environmental cue. Should be clearly distinguished from a kinesis. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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taxis logo #21001(tak´sis) an orientation movement of a motile organism in response to a stimulus; it may be either toward (positive) or away from (negative) the source of the stimulus. See also tropism. exertion of force in manual replacement of a displaced organ or part.
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Taxis logo #10444Movement toward or away from a stimulation.
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taxis logo #10444A response in which the direction of movement is affected by an environmental cue. Should be clearly distinguished from a kinesis.
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Taxis logo #20972Tax'is noun [ New Latin , from Greek ta`xis a division or arrangement, from ta`ssein to arrange.] (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. Dunglison.
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Taxis logo #20972Tax'is noun In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
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taxis logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: tak′sis Definitions: 1. Reduction of a hernia or of a dislocation of any part by means of manipulation. 2. Systematic classification or orderly arrangement. 3. The reaction of protoplasm to a stimulus, by virtue of which animals and plants are led to move or act in certain definite ways in relation to their environme...
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taxis logo #21351the movement of a whole organism in response to a directional stimulus. Thus geotaxis is movement in response to gravity; phototaxis is movement in response to light; chemotaxis is movement in response to a chemical substance.
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taxis logo #20400[n] - a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism 2. [n] - the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
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taxis logo #21009taxis 1. Arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences. 2. In biology, oriented movement of a motile organism in response to an external stimulus, as toward or away from light. 3. A manipulative surgical operation to replace parts that have terminated their natural function; that is, reducing hernias, etc. 4. Structural adaptation of el...
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Taxis logo #23196The distribution of a proper adjunct to every subject.
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taxis logo #20974 noun a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
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taxis logo #21221In botany and microbiology, the movement of a single cell, such as a bacterium, protozoan, single-celled alga, or gamete, in response to an external stimulus. A movement directed towards the stimulus is described as positive taxis, and away from it as negative taxis. The alga Chlamydomonas, for example, demonstrates positive ...
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taxis logo #21571The behavior when an animal turns and moves toward or away from an external stimulus (pl.: taxes).
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