Adjective

(en adjective)

Relating to the law or to lawyers.

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Having its basis in the law.

Being allowed or prescribed by law.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, volume=408, issue=8850, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Waking life , passage=After 50 years, legal segregation is a distant memory, and race in America is not the unbridgeable chasm it once was. The country has a black president. The sort of comity that King evoked, in which the descendants of slaves and of slave owners “sit down together at the table of brotherhood”, can be found in many places, including the Deep South. The rate of marriage between blacks and whites is rising.}}

(informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic.

Reasonable.

(not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.

(computing) Non-physical or conceptual yet underpinned by something physical or actual.

Logical memory appears contiguous to an application program, but may well be stored on several physical devices, including in RAM and on hard-disks, as determined by the operating system.

* 1986 , Noel Malcolm Morris, Computer graphics and CAD fundamentals: BBC Micro version

It is, of course, vital to restore the logical colours to their normal value at the end of the program