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fluxotaxis

noun

Etymology

From flux + -o- + taxis.

  1. learned borrowing from τάξις
  2. formed as fluxotaxis — “flux + -o- + taxis”

Definitions

  1. A technique used by robots to locate a chemical source by means of its mass flux.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fluxotaxis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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