logistique

French

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

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

logistique (plural logistiques)

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

Etymology 2

Noun

logistique f (plural logistiques)

  1. logistics

Adjective

logistique (plural logistiques)

  1. (relational) logistics
Derived terms
Descendants

References
  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, 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.

Further reading
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.