What does "caloric" mean?

The hypothetical medium of heat.

Caloric

Common synonyms include: burning, calorie content per serving, calorific, calorific, calorific energy, energia térmica.

/kəˈlɒɹɪk/ adj, noun

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Noun

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."

Adjective

1
Relating to calories.
"caloric intake"
2
Containing calories.
"Milk is a caloric beverage."
3
Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
"a dry, caloric food"
4
Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).

Adjective

"The only way to lose weight is to create a caloric deficit by burning more calories than you eat."

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