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Gram calorie

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Noun
  1. 1
    The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water by a degree centigrade: a unit of measure of energy.

    "Holonyms: kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large calorie, Calorie (with a capital C), calorie (large-calorie sense) < megacalorie < gigacalorie"

  2. 2
    unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure wordnet

Etymology

Because a gram of water is the referent mass (versus a kilogram of water); see Calorie.

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