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Caloric

//kəˈlɒɹɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to calories.

    "caloric intake"

  2. 2
    Containing calories.

    "Milk is a caloric beverage."

  3. 3
    Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).

    "a dry, caloric food"

  4. 4
    Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to calories in food wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to or associated with heat wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The hypothetical medium of heat. historical, uncountable

    "The fluid matter of heat, or Calorique, in which all bodies are immersed, is as necessary to vegetable as to animal existence."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

Etymology 2

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

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