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log
lɒɡ Listen
Meanings
noun
  • a part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off.
    E.g. she tripped over a fallen log
  • an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft.
    E.g. a ship's log
  • an apparatus for determining the speed of a ship, originally one consisting of a float attached to a knotted line that is wound on a reel, the distance run out in a certain time being used as an estimate of the vessel's speed.
  • the Ranfurly Shield, an interprovincial rugby union trophy competed for annually in New Zealand.
    E.g. errors late in the game cost them a shot at the log of wood
verb
  • enter (an incident or fact) in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record.
    E.g. the incident has to be logged
  • cut down (an area of forest) in order to exploit the timber commercially.
    E.g. there are plans to log 250,000 hectares of virgin rainforest
noun
  • short for logarithm.
    E.g. log values
logarithm
ˈlɒɡərɪð(ə)m Listen
Meanings
noun
  • a quantity representing the power to which a fixed number (the base) must be raised to produce a given number.
    E.g. proportional to the logarithm to the base 10 of the concentration
-logue
lɒɡ Listen
Meanings
combining form
  • denoting discourse of a specified type.
    E.g. dialogue
  • denoting compilation.
    E.g. catalogue
  • equivalent to -logist.

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