stokes
/stˈoʊks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm²/s.
name
A surname.
name
A locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, north Queensland, Australia.
name
A census-designated place in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
name
Four townships in the United States, two each in Minnesota and Ohio.
Example Sentences
- "“In our view, on the basis of the public record, former President Donald J. Trump is constitutionally disqualified from again being President (or holding any other covered office) because of his role in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and the events leading to the January 6 attack,” law professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen wrote for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review."
Etymology
Derived Forms
Phrases
anti-Stokes
Kelvin-Stokes theorem
Stokes Bay
Stokes-Cartan theorem
Stokes County
Stokes flow
Stokes' theorem
Frequently Paired Words
mul:S
mul:St