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The definition of logistic is something that relates to coordinating complex projects or movements or solving complicated problems.

(adjective)

An example of logistic is a description for managing a complex move that involves many people and details that have to be coordinated.

See logistic in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

of logistics

also logistical

Related Forms:

logistically adverb

adjective

of calculation

Origin: ML logisticus < Gr logistikos, skilled in calculation < logizesthai, to calculate < logos, a word: see logic

noun

Rare the art of calculation; common arithmetic

Related Forms:

logistically adverb

See logistic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Of or relating to symbolic logic.
Of or relating to logistics.

Origin:

Origin: Medieval Latin logisticus, of calculation

Origin: , from Greek logistikos, skilled in calculating

Origin: , from logistēs, calculator

Origin: , from logizesthai, to calculate

Origin: , from logos, reckoning, reason; see leg- in Indo-European roots

Related Forms:

lo·gisˈti·cal·ly adverb

loˌgis·tiˈcian (-jĭ-stĭshˈən) noun

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