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Logarithmical, Logarithmic adj.

Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.

Using logarithms; as, logarithmic graph paper; a logarithmic scale.

Having a logarithm in one or more of the unknowns; of an equation.

Logarithmic curve (Math.), a curve which, referred to a system of rectangular coordinate axes, is such that the ordinate of any point will be the logarithm of its abscissa.

Logarithmic spiral, a spiral curve such that radii drawn from its pole or eye at equal angles with each other are in continual proportion. See Spiral.

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Etymology of 'Logarithmical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Hertfordshire; was educated at Oxford for the Church, but his natural bent was towards mathematical science, and in 1619 he became professor of Astronomy in Gresham College, London, a position he held till his death; his "Canon Triangulorum" (1620) was the first table of logarithmic sines and tangents drawn up on Briggs's system; amongst other of his inventions was the surveying chain, a quadrant, Gunter's scale, and he was the first to observe the variations ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood