English
infotaxisinfotaxis
From info- + taxis.
Formed from info- + taxis
Late Latin īnfōrmātiō
Middle English enformacioun ‘Informing’
English information
English info-
Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to order, to establish, to rule’
Proto-Hellenic *tat͏̌t͏̌ō
Ancient Greek τᾰ́σσω ‘I arrange”, “I order’
Ancient Greek τάξις ‘arrangement, order’
English taxis
Today it means
noun Any searching strategy in which there is sparse information, especially a strategy used by biological organisms to zigzag towards the source of an odour based on sporadic clues.
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