Caloric definitions

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Of or relating to heat.

The caloric effect of sunlight.

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Of or relating to calories.

The caloric content of foods.

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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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An imagined substance to which the phenomena of burning and oxidation were formerly attributed.
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Heat.
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Of heat.
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Of or pertaining to calories.
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Relating to calories.

The caloric content of foods.

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(US, UK rare) Relating to calories.

Caloric intake.

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(US, UK rare) Containing calories.

Milk is a caloric beverage.

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(US, UK rare) High in calories.

A dry, caloric food.

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(US, UK rare) Relating to or producing heat or other energy.
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(obsolete) The hypothetical medium of heat.
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Origin of caloric

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

Sentence Examples

  • In 1833 his caloric engine was made public. In 1836 he took out a patent for a screw-propeller, and though the priority of his invention could not be maintained, he was afterwards awarded a one-fifth share of the £20,000 given by the Admiralty for it.

  • The list of simple substances contained in the first volume of this work includes# light and caloric with oxygen, azote and hydrogen.

  • Alcohol intake should be modest or go away entirely, not only because the high caloric content (alcohol is almost as energy dense as pure fat) but also because it can potentially mess up your ability to burn body fat effectively.

  • Since one gram of fat contains 9 calories, while one gram of protein or carbohydrate contain 4 calories, it makes perfect sense to cut back on the number of fat grams constituting a meal in order to cut back on total caloric intake.

  • Holtzmann (1845) by the same assumption deduced the value J/T for the function F'(t), but obtained erroneous results by combining this assumption with the caloric theory.

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