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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 a logistic 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

[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.]

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