Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to logistics.
- adjective Of or relating to symbolic logic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Logical.
- Skilled in or pertaining to computation and calculation.
- Proportional; pertaining to proportions.
- noun The art of calculation, with the fingers, with an abacus, with characters, or otherwise; practical or vulgar arithmetic.
- noun Sexagesimal arithmetic.
- In mathematics: Logarithmic.
- Pertaining to a logarithmic curve.
- noun A logistic curve. See cut under
logistic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Logical.
- adjective (Math.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60.
- adjective Of or pertaining to logistics.
- adjective certain logarithmic numbers used to shorten the calculation of the fourth term of a proportion of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour, while the other terms are expressed in minutes and seconds; -- not now used.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective operations Relating to
logistics . - adjective mathematics Relating to
symbolic logic . - adjective statistics Relating to the
logistic function . - noun mathematics A
logistic function or graph of alogistic curve .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to logistics
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The treaty also is giving the United States the ability to transport arms into Afghanistan through Russian airspace and land which will save the US approximately $133 million dollars in logistic costs per year.
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A globalised world is a world following what I call the logistic principle.
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"The bridge is what we call a logistic support bridge.
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"The bridge is what we call a logistic support bridge.
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"The bridge is what we call a logistic support bridge.
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In most cases with a dichotomous (i.e., 0/1) outcome, it is appropriate to use what is known as a logistic regression model (which is non-linear).
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In most cases with a dichotomous (i.e., 0/1) outcome, it is appropriate to use what is known as a logistic regression model (which is non-linear).
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Rather than growing indefinitely on an exponential path — say of 4% GDP growth per year — national and global economic systems must follow what is called a logistic pattern in which growth is eventually limited, at least in terms of resource consumption (see Figure 7).
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A statistical method called logistic regression was used to analyze the data.
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Gooley's love of the tournament -- and frustration with simple scoring systems -- led him to borrow a technique from his professional research called logistic regression.
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