Molar

From Capitalism and Schizophrenia

A molar formation is a unification of molecular forces. The molar obeys the law of large numbers and it is thus a statistical accumulation (AOC 375).

It may be used as a sociological concept in order to describe mass behaviour, or rather, how desire is extracted and interconnected from a socius.

In A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Brian Massumi writes,

the distinction between molecular and molar has absolutely nothing what so
ever to do with scale. ... The distinction is not one of scale, but of mode
of composition: it is qualitive, not quantitative. In a molecular population
(mass) there are only local connections between discrete particles. In the
case of a molar population (superindividual or person) locally connected
discrete particles have become correlated at a distance. ... Molarity implies
the creation or prior existence of a well-defined boundary enabling the
population to be grasped as a whole.
(pp. 54-55)

In biology molar behaviour can be described as behaviour in large response units rather than smaller ones.

See also molecular.