logistique
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Ancient Greek λογιστικός (logistikós, “practiced in arithmetic, rational”), from λόγος (lógos). Sense of “logistic function” by Pierre François Verhulst (1845).[1]
Adjective
[edit]logistique (plural logistiques)
- (mathematics) Relating to symbolic logic; logistic
- (statistics) Relating to the logistic function; logistic
Descendants
[edit]- English: logistic
Etymology 2
[edit]- From Ancient Greek λογιστική (logistikḗ), an ellipsis of λογιστικὴ τέχνη (logistikḕ tékhnē);[2]
- Or from loger (“to lodge”) or logis (“lodging place”) -istique.[3]
Noun
[edit]logistique f (plural logistiques)
Adjective
[edit]logistique (plural logistiques)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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”
- ^ “logistique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “logistics, n2.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
[edit]- “logistique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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