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- English Word Log Definition A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
- English Word Log Definition A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
- English Word Log Definition An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
- English Word Log Definition Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
- English Word Log Definition A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.
- English Word Log Definition A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
- English Word Log Definition To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
- English Word Log Definition To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
- English Word Log Definition To move to and fro; to rock.
- English Word Log-chip Definition A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. See 2d Log, n., 2.
- English Word Log-ship Definition A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2.
- English Word Logan Definition A rocking or balanced stone.
- English Word Logaoedic Definition Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.
- English Word Logarithm Definition One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.
- English Word Logarithmetic Definition Alt. of Logarithmetical
- English Word Logarithmetical Definition See Logarithmic.
- English Word Logarithmetically Definition Logarithmically.
- English Word Logarithmic Definition Alt. of Logarithmical
- English Word Logarithmical Definition Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.
- English Word Logarithmically Definition By the use of logarithms.