Logistics: Definition and part of speech

Logistics

  1. n. A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.
  2. n. That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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