caloric
noun
- an imagined substance to which the phenomena of burning and oxidation were formerly attributed
- Archaic heat
adjective
- of heat
- of or pertaining to calories
See caloric in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(kə-lôrˈĭk, -lŏrˈ-)
adjective- Of or relating to heat: the caloric effect of sunlight.
- Of or relating to calories: the caloric content of foods.
noun A hypothetically indestructible, uncreatable, highly elastic, self-repellent, all-pervading fluid formerly thought responsible for the production, possession, and transfer of heat.
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