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logistic
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Logistic \Lo*gis"tic\, Logistical \Lo*gis"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ? skilled in calculating, ? to calculate, fr. lo`gos word, number, reckoning: cf. F. logistique.] Logical. [Obs.] --Berkeley. (Math.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to logic," 1620s, from Medieval Latin logisticus , from Greek logistikos "endued with reason," from logikos (see logic ). Related: Logistical (1560s); logistically . Logistics from this word, in the sense "art of arithmetical calculation" is ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context operations English) Relating to logistics. 2 (context mathematics English) Relating to symbolic logic. 3 (context statistics English) Relating to the logistic function. n. (context mathematics English) A logistic function or graph of a logistic ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN regression ▪ On logistic regression , the presence and extent of gastric metaplasia was not significantly associated with H pylori infection. ▪ Two stepwise logistic regression procedures were performed. ▪ The use ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Logistic may refer to: Logistics , the management of resources and their distributions Logistic engineering , the scientific study of logistics Military logistics , the study of logistics at the service of military units and operations Logistic function ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to logistics; "logistic requirements" [syn: logistical ]
Usage examples of logistic.
The almost continuous exchange of encrypted human information--bearings, timing, logistic concerns, and good-natured jibes--passing between the divers, the Hawkbill, and the Rush-more now gave way to the sound of automated machines.
She was no glamour girl, but not hard to look at, and he was of a station beneath her in the scientific hierarchya mere corporal in Logistics, barely out of his teens, too low to even be up at the Point.
These men and women of the Signals and Logistics commands and of Transportation and Energy are right now the political bosses.
She nodded, leaned back, and a young soldier in Logistics blue brought her a sealed box that, he saw, had his name and number on it.
Even if we could somehow manage to make the necessities out of Flux, the logistics of getting those necessities to the people and evenly and regularly distributing them would be a nightmare.
The manufacturing and logistics for such a system is also monstrous and will require a concentrated worldwide effort.
Where the brigade of logistics and management personnel had been was now a wasteland of shredded equipment and camouflage uniforms.
The High Commander will command Training Command, Intelligence, Logistics, what have you.
If we had the time, the training and the room, I would send out some fast units with fast logistics support and mobile artillery to slow them up.
We have logistics trains forward of our combat teams and combat units.
Other logistics units began to report contact as the main reserve of the division started a movement to the west.
He cautioned Franks to be sure that he had enough forces, including logistics personnel.
Fitzgerald was concerned that Macgregor was giving short shrift to logistics and noted that an artillery unit had run out of gas in the 1991 Gulf War.
Camps would be set up for Iraqi citizens fleeing the battle, and a logistics base for nongovernmental relief organizations would be established southwest of the city to stockpile humanitarian aid.
Moreover, the Army had responsibilities the other services did not have, including operating the port and airfield in Kuwait and managing logistics for the entire military theater.