cratic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to counterions.
adj
Relating to political or organisational power.
Example Sentences
- "If we go on to consider the reaction in a solution so dilute that the interionic forces make a negligible contribution to the communal term in ΔF, we may refer to the cratic term, instead of the communal term;"
- "Binding is however favoured by the non-salt dependent free energy, the ion-release cratic free energy and by decreased ion-ion repulsion."
- "In the case of electrostatic entropy this is just what is expected if it represents the cratic entropy of mixing of the couterions released on binding with the ions in the bulk solution: it should be positive and independent of temperature."
- "Arthur Stinchcombe, for example, pioneered what we call the cratic approach when he defined legitimacy as a 'power reserve'."
- "The second personal factors influencing the phenomenon of the erosion of power is connected with the characteristics of cratic (power) motivation, also called the need for power."
- "Anyone who seeks power is almost necessarily compelled to seek state power as well; to this extent the cratic inevitably refers to the political."
Etymology
From the suffix -cratic in words such as aristocratic, from French -cratique, from Ancient Greek -κρατικός (-kratikós). See -cratic for more.
Inflected Forms
more cratic (comparative)
most cratic (superlative)