logistique

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lɔ.ʒis.tik/
  • Audio (Paris):(file)

Etymology 1

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From Ancient Greek λογιστικός (logistikós, practiced in arithmetic, rational), from λόγος (lógos). Sense of “logistic function” by Pierre François Verhulst (1845).[1]

Adjective

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logistique (plural logistiques)

  1. (mathematics) Relating to symbolic logic; logistic
  2. (statistics) Relating to the logistic function; logistic
Descendants
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  • English: logistic

Etymology 2

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Noun

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logistique f (plural logistiques)

  1. logistics

Adjective

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logistique (plural logistiques)

  1. (relational) logistics
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References

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  1. ^ Verhulst, Pierre-François (1845) “Recherches mathématiques sur la loi d'accroissement de la population [Mathematical Researches into the Law of Population Growth Increase.]”, in Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles[1], volume 18, retrieved 2013-02-18, page 8 of 1–42:Nous donnerons le nom de logistique à la courbe // We will give the name logistic to the curve
  2. ^ logistique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  3. ^ logistics, n2.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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