different between karats vs karass

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karats

Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1963, in the novel Cat's Cradle.

karass (plural karasses)

A network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.
- 1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
  We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon […]
- 2013, Felix Lebed, Michael Bar-Eli, Complexity and Control in Team Sports: Dialectics in Contesting Human Systems, Routledge ?ISBN, page 128
  Like all complex systems of this type, each “karass” has its own history (see Chapter 1, 1.2). This history is a selected and saved internal ethos of organization based on both social relations and common activity experience.

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