logarithm: [17] Greek lógos had a remarkably wide spread of meanings, ranging from ‘speech, saying’ to ‘reason, reckoning, calculation’, and ‘ratio’. The more ‘verbal’ end of its spectrum has given English the suffixes -logue and -logy (as in dialogue, tautology, etc), while the ‘reasoning’ component has contributed logic [14] (from the Greek derivative logiké), logistic [17] (from the Greek derivative logistikós ‘of calculation’), and logarithm, coined in the early 17th century by the English mathematician John Napier from Greek logós ‘ratio’ and arithmós ‘number’ (source of English arithmetic [13]). => arithmetic, logic, logistic
logarithm (n.)
1610s, Modern Latin logarithmus, coined by Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617), literally "ratio-number," from Greek logos "proportion, ratio, word" (see logos) + arithmos "number" (see arithmetic).
雙語例句
1. The natural logarithm of this ratio is called the logarithmic decrement.
此比率自然對數稱為對數的減量.
來自辭典例句
2. The characteristic of the logarithm 6.3214 is 6.
對數6.3214的首數是6.
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3. His first designs were for a machine to calculate such things as logarithm tables.
他的最初設計是為機器計算諸如對數表之類的事情.
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4. Returns the logarithm of a specified number in a specified base.
返回指定數字在使用指定底時的對數.
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5. The fifth day is the logarithm stage for the mycelium growth.