Lo-gis'tics, n. sing.

[Lat. logista, the administrator or intendant of Roman armies, lit. an accountant.]

1. (Mil.) That branch of military art which embraces all details of moving or supplying armies; by some writers extended to include strategy. Scott.
2. (Math.) A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of sixty, chiefly used in computations respecting the parts of circular arcs, or the divisions of angles; logistic arithmetic. [See Note under MATHEMATICS.] Math. Dict.