logistique

French

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

Etymology 2

Noun

logistique f (plural logistiques)

  1. logistics

Adjective

logistique (plural logistiques)

  1. relating to logistics
Derived terms
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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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
  3. “logistics, n2.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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