logarithmic
Americanadjective
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pertaining to a logarithm or logarithms.
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(of an equation) having a logarithm as one or more of its unknowns.
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(of a function)
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pertaining to the function y = log x.
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expressible by means of logarithms.
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adjective
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of, relating to, using, or containing logarithms of a number or variable
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consisting of, relating to, or using points or lines whose distances from a fixed point or line are proportional to the logarithms of numbers
Other Word Forms
- logarithmically adverb
Etymology
Origin of logarithmic
Vocabulary lists containing logarithmic
Functions - High School
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Example Sentences
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The researchers discovered that the mathematical framework at the heart of Ramanujan's pi formulas also appears in the equations underlying these logarithmic conformal field theories.
From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025
The scale for brightness is reverse logarithmic, which means the brighter an object is, the lower its magnitude number.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2023
But the February 6 earthquake was a 7.8—about four times bigger on the logarithmic scale of earthquake magnitudes.
From Scientific American • Feb. 22, 2023
It is a logarithmic scale: For each whole-number it rises, the amount of energy released by an earthquake increases by about 32 times.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2023
He read books on calculus and logarithmic algebra and loved what he called the poetry and symmetry of math.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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