Definition of Logarithmic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or using logarithms. "Logarithmic function"

Partainyms: Logarithm
Derivative terms: Logarithm

Definition of Logarithmic

1. a. Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.

Definition of Logarithmic

1. Adjective. (mathematics) Of, or relating to logarithms. ¹

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Definition of Logarithmic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Logarithmic

logagnosia
logagraphia
logamediate
logamnesia
loganate
loganberries
loganberry
loganias
logans
logaoedic
logaoedics
logaphasia
logarithm
logarithmancy
logarithmetically
logarithmic (current term)
logarithmic function
logarithmic functions
logarithmic phase
logarithmic scale
logarithmic trigonometric function
logarithmic trigonometric functions
logarithmical
logarithmically
logarithmize
logarithms
logasthenia
logaœdic
logaœdics
logboard

Literary usage of Logarithmic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"For instance, suppose it were desired to find the logarithmic decrement of an ... If the logarithmic decrement did not vary the curve would be a straight ..."

2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"The logarithm of the ratio of the amplitude of a vibration to that of the next following is called the logarithmic Decrement. If we write p for this ratio, ..."

3. How to Make and Use Graphic Charts by Allan Cecil Haskell (1919)
"4, is a combination of the logarithmic and rectilinear charts, usually having the logarithmic ruling vertically along the y-axis and the rectilinear ruling, ..."

4. Graphical and Mechanical Computation by Joseph Lipka (1918)
"The logarithmic slide rule.* —This instrument consists of several parallel ... All logarithmic slide rules do not carry the same number of scales. ..."

5. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"logarithmic Diagram.—It is a well-known fact that the equation of the polytropic curve Pv" = C becomes a straight line when plotted on logarithmic ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1900)
"Note on Finding the logarithmic Sines and Tangents of Small Arcs. By J. Burgess, CIE, LL.D. (Read July 18, 1898.) In geodetical and astronomical ..."

7. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1919)
"Determination of the Number of Oscillations by the Aid of the Decrement.— A knowledge of the value of the logarithmic decrement of the oscillations taking ..."

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