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English

Etymology

logistic +? -ian. Cognate to French logisticien (1908).

Noun

logistician (plural logisticians)

1. A person involved with logistics.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French logisticien

Noun

logistician m (plural logisticieni)

1. logistician

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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??d??s.t?k/, /l?d???s.t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l??d??s.t?k/, /lo??d??s.t?k/

Etymology 1

From French logistique, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (logistikós, “practiced in arithmetic; rational”), from ????????? (logízomai, “I reason, I calculate”), from ????? (lógos, “reason, computation”), whence English logos, logic, logarithm, etc.; modern mathematical use influenced by related logarithmic.

Sense of “logistic function” by Pierre François Verhulst (1845) in French, then borrowed into English. Verhulst does not explain his choice of naming, but he contrasts it with the logarithmic curve (also from ????? (lógos)), and it is presumably by analogy with arithmetic and geometric (other divisions of mathematics), as his discussion of arithmetic growth and geometric growth precede his discussion of logistic growth.

The term logistic and logistical also found occasional mathematical use in English prior to 1800, from the same Greek origin.

Adjective

logistic (not comparable)

1. (mathematics) Relating to symbolic logic.
2. (statistics) Relating to the logistic function.
3. (mathematics, obsolete) Using sexagesimal fractions, especially in arithmetic or logarithms.
4. (mathematics, obsolete) Relating to basic arithmetic.
5. (mathematics, obsolete) Skilled in calculating.
6. (mathematics, obsolete) Proportional.

Translations

Noun

logistic (countable and uncountable, plural logistics)

1. (countable, mathematics) A logistic function or graph of a logistic curve.
2. (uncountable, mathematics, obsolete) The art of calculation.
3. (uncountable, mathematics, obsolete) Sexagesimal arithmetic.

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References

Etymology 2

From French logistique, from loger (“to lodge”) or logis (“lodging place”).

Adjective

logistic (not comparable)

1. (operations) Relating to logistics.

Translations

Derived terms

• logistical
• logistically
• logistician

References

Anagrams

• logicist

Romanian

Etymology

From French logistique.

Adjective

logistic m or n (feminine singular logistic?, masculine plural logistici, feminine and neuter plural logistice)

1. logistical
2. logistic

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