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logical Last modified: Tuesday, December 19, 2006

(1) Refers to a user's view of the way data or systems are organized. The opposite of logical is physical, which refers to the real organization of a system. For example, a logical description of a file is that it is a collection of data stored together. This is the way files appear to users. Physically, however, a single file can be divided into many pieces scattered across a disk. (2) Refers to any Boolean logic operation.