单词 | logistical |
释义 | logisticaladj. 1. Pertaining to or based upon reasoning or disputation. (Cf. logistic adj. 1.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [adjective] discoursive1588 debative1606 logistical1644 disputative1664 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [adjective] reasoningc1454 dianoetical1570 discoursing1571 discoursory1581 ratiocinative1585 discoursive1588 discursive1595 discoursative1604 discursory1614 logistic1638 logistical1644 discussive1645 rationative1650 dianoetic1677 reasoned1684 ratiocinatory1728 raisonné1777 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical disputation or dialectics > [adjective] dialectical1532 logistical1644 dialectic1650 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 3 The Logisticall motions that appear in the Hands of Disputants. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. i. 214 That Logistical or rational facultie of the soul. 1833 New Monthly Mag. 38 13 A question that depended upon no abstruse or logistical reasoning. 2. Pertaining to calculation. = logistic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] logistical1570 rationary1656 logistic1706 numerative1788 computational1881 supercomputing1927 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. sig. 349 Ye may vse the logistical secret of approching nere to the precise verytye. 1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet (1707) x. 272 The Sacred Story..does so exactly agree with the Conversions of Heaven, and Logistical Astronomy. 3. a. Mathematics. = logistic adj. 3a – 3c. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic > [adjective] > specific kinds natural1630 logistical1653 vulgar arithmetic1653 logistic1656 binary arithmetic1796 1653 Shakerley (title) Tabulæ Britannicæ: The British Tables: Wherein is contained Logistical Arithmetick, the Doctrine of the Sphere, Astronomicall Chronologie [etc.]. 1653 Shakerley Tabulæ Britan. 1 Chap. i Of Logisticall Multiplication and Division. 1653 Shakerley Tabulæ Britan. 2 A new Table of Logistical Logarithmes. 1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Pract. Arithm. Pref. 74 Astronomical [Arithmetick], which sometimes also is called Logistical. 1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Pract. Arithm. i. 78 Of Logistical Addition [i.e. addition of degrees, minutes, seconds, etc.; of years, days, hours, etc.]. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Logistical Arithmetick, was formerly the Arithmetick of Sexagesimal Fractions... It is now taken by some for the expeditious Arithmetick of Logarithms, by which all the Trouble of Multiplication and Division is sav'd. 1777 Shuckburgh in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 586 (note) This table bears some analogy to the tables of logistical logarithms. b. = logistic adj. 3d; of or pertaining to logicism. ΚΠ 1932 H. W. B. Joseph in Mind XLI. 439 And it would be consonant so far with the logistical doctrine that pure mathematics is just logic, or an outgrowth of logic. 1943 Mind 52 264 The ‘logistical thesis’ that mathematics is reducible to logic. 1966 W. V. Quine Ways of Paradox viii. 64 (heading) A logistical approach to the ontological problem. 4. Pertaining to logistics n.2; = logistic adj. 4. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > [adjective] logistic1934 logistical1957 society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [adjective] > logistics logistic1934 logistical1957 1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1957 Economist 7 Sept. 838/3 Soldiers who can, without any lessening of their primal martial qualities, handle their logistical and procurement problems. 1966 Listener 13 Jan. 65/2 You would..allow more time than six months for the 190,000 American troops to effectively dismember the 165,000 Viet Cong troops, an enemy which possesses all the strategical and logistical advantages. 1972 Sci. Amer. Feb. 77/3 Logistical problems such as transporting magnetic tapes and fragile equipment..proved to be as much of a challenge as technical considerations. 1975 Listener 9 Jan. 41/1 Sven Hedin in 1927..could show his journeys through East Asia, China and Mongolia with all the emphasis on the logistical dramas. Draft additions September 2006 logistical nightmare n. originally Military a situation which presents many difficulties in terms of logistics; something extremely difficult to organize or plan. ΚΠ 1944 Ld. Mountbatten in Times 26 Aug. 3/1 We..are fighting from the most difficult lines of communication in the world. Assam is a logistical nightmare. 1978 Internat. Security 2 63 The infrastructural inadequacies that have created a logistical nightmare for military planners. 2003 Daily Tel. 15 Oct. 13/6 The result is a logistical nightmare that could see a two-tier Europe, with some countries facing trade tariffs within the EEA and others not. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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