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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
logistic
adjective
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■ 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 of multiple logistic regression allowed the selection of the most useful clinical signs which are predictive of hypoxaemia.
▪ Variables were entered into or removed from the logistic regression equation one at a time.
▪ Multivariate analysis was carried out by unconditional logistic regression analysis.
▪ Respiratory symptoms were analysed by multiple logistic regression and lung function standard deviation scores by multiple linear regression.
▪ The logistic regression analysis showed that of the seven reflux variables only hiatal hernia predicted oesophageal mucosal status.
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▪ Artillery, Engineer, and Signals regiments, and its logistic corps, were tailored to support them.
▪ As McClellan constantly stresses, the interpretation of logistic information is crucial to its proper use.
▪ Effective transport and logistic systems are crucial for delivering drugs, vaccines and supplies, supervising staff and generally supporting health services.
▪ Great care must be exercised in deciding whether or not data fits a logistic curve.
▪ However, logistic problems and slotting practice have made this ideal difficult to achieve.
▪ Two other logistic problems are discussed by McClellan.
▪ With hindsight it was a remarkable logistic achievement.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Logistic

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.]

  1. Logical. [Obs.]
    --Berkeley.

  2. (Math.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic.

  3. Of or pertaining to logistics; as, logistic requirements; logistical problems; a logistical nightmare.

    Logistic logarithms, or Proportional logarithms, 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
logistic

"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 from 1650s.

Wiktionary
logistic

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 curve.

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WordNet
logistic

adj. of or relating to logistics; "logistic requirements" [syn: logistical]

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Wikipedia
Logistic

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, a sigmoid function used in many fields
    • Logistic map, a recurrence relation that sometimes exhibits chaos
    • Logit, the inverse of the logistic function, fundamental to logistic regression
  • Logistic distribution, in probability theory and statistics, a continuous probability distribution
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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.