of logistics
also lo·gis′ti·cal
adjective
The definition of logistic is something that relates to coordinating complex projects or movements or solving complicated problems.
An example of logistic is a description for managing a complex move that involves many people and details that have to be coordinated.
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logistic
designating or of an -shaped curve representing an exponential function, used in population studies, etc.
Origin of logistic
Medieval Latin logisticus from Classical Greek logistikos, skilled in calculation from logizesthai, to calculate from logos, a word: see logicWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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logistic
also lo·gis·ti·cal
adjective
- Of or relating to logistics.
- Of or relating to symbolic logic.
Origin of logistic
Medieval Latin logisticus of calculation from Greek logistikos skilled in calculating from logistēs calculator from logizesthai to calculate from logos reckoning, reason ; see leg- in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- lo·gis′ti·cal·ly
adverb
- lo′gis·ti′cian
noun
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Adjective
(not comparable)
- (operations) Relating to logistics.
- (mathematics) Relating to symbolic logic.
- (statistics) Relating to the logistic function.
Noun
(plural logistics)
- (mathematics) A logistic function or graph of a logistic curve.
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From Ancient Greek [script?], skilled in calculating.
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Sentence Examples
- The usual practice in books seems to be to call logarithms logistic when a is 3600", and proportional when a has any other value.
- Logistic or Proportional Logarithms. - The old name for what are now called ratios or fractions are logistic numbers, so that a table of log (a/x) where x is the argument and a a constant is called a table of logistic or proportional logarithms; and since log (a/x) =log a-log x it is clear that the tabular results differ from those given in an ordinary table of logarithms only by the subtraction of a constant and a change of sign.
- Logistic or Proportional Logarithms. - The old name for what are now called ratios or fractions are logistic numbers, so that a table of log (a/x) where x is the argument and a a constant is called a table of logistic or proportional logarithms; and since log (a/x) =log a-log x it is clear that the tabular results differ from those given in an ordinary table of logarithms only by the subtraction of a constant and a change of sign.
- In most collections of tables of logarithms, and especially those intended for use in connexion with navigation, there occurs a small table of logistic logarithms in which a = 3600"(= I° or I h), the table giving log 3600 log x, and x being expressed in minutes and seconds.
- Among these subjects were the transit of Mercury, the Aurora Borealis, the figure of the earth, the observation of the fixed stars, the inequalities in terrestrial gravitation, the application of mathematics to the theory of the telescope, the limits of certainty in astronomical observations, the solid of greatest attraction, the cycloid, the logistic curve, the theory of comets, the tides, the law of continuity, the double refraction micrometer, various problems of spherical trigonometry, &c. In 1742 he was consulted, with other men of science, by the pope, Benedict XIV., as to the best means of securing the stability of the dome of St Peter's, Rome, in which a crack had been discovered.
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