Taxi - Definition and Overview

Taxi may mean:

• A form of public transportation: see taxicab.
• An American television comedy: see Taxi.
• The title of a number of movies
  • The best known of which is Taxi Driver
  • Another is Luc Besson's Taxi from 1998
  • A 2004 Taxi movie featured Jimmy Fallon and is a remake of Besson's film
• A Romanian pop band -- see Taxi.
• An air taxi (charter jet) is a bizjet.
• A water taxi is a small boat that transports passengers on water.
• A verb describing the movement of an aircraft on the ground. Usually this is between runways, or between a hangar or terminal and a runway. The paved surfaces on which aircraft taxi are called taxiways.
• An Australian exclamation, normally heard in pubs, clubs and bars following an act of discoordination (i.e. spilling drinks or breaking glasses). Suggesting that the uncoordinated party should probably be put in a taxi and sent home immediately.

The word taxi arose as short for "taximeter", which was made from French taxe = "price" and Greek metron = "measure".

• Taxis is an oriented locomotion in a gradient, usually of simple organisms (chemotaxis, magnetotaxis, ...)

The word taxis arose as Greek for "arrangement", from the verb tassein.