calorie
See also: Calorie
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French calorie, formed from Latin calor. It was originally defined as the large calorie in the early 19th century, with the small calorie being defined some decades later.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæləɹi/, /ˈkælɹi/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -æləɹi
- Hyphenation: cal‧or‧ie
Noun
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calorie (plural calories)
- (nutrition) A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.
- Synonyms: large calorie, kilocalorie, Calorie (capital C), kilogram calorie
- Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
- Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Biotics: Life as a Biotic Codex entry:
- Biotics possess extraordinary abilities, but they must live with minor inconveniences. The most obvious issue is getting adequate nutrition. Creating biotic mass effects takes such a toll on metabolism that active biotics develop ravenous appetites. The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat.
- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
- Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
- (physical chemistry, physics) A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 joules, that can raise the temperature of a gram of water by one degree Celsius. This unit was formerly widely used in chemistry and physics.
- Synonyms: small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
- Holonyms: kilocalorie, calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C) < megacalorie < gigacalorie
Usage notes
[edit]- Most scientific studies are now carried out using the joule (an SI unit).
- In nutritional contexts the term calorie refers to the kilogram calorie and the term kilocalorie refers to 1000 gram calories. Thus the two terms are equivalent.
- Calorie counters, such as those on fitness bikes, use the first, more modern, definition.
- European legislation now requires foods to be labelled with the term kilocalorie.
Derived terms
[edit]- 15° calorie
- 20° calorie
- 4° calorie
- a calorie is a calorie
- a calorie is a calorie is a calorie
- caloric (US)
- calorics
- Calorie
- calorie bomb
- calorie-conscious
- calorie deficit
- calorie-ful
- calorieless
- calorie-restricted
- calorific (UK)
- calorific value
- calorimetre
- calorize
- empty calorie
- food calorie
- gram calorie
- high-calorie (noun modifier)
- kilogram calorie
- large calorie
- low-calorie (noun modifier)
- mean calorie
- megacalorie
- microcalorie
- millicalorie
- small calorie
- thermochemical calorie
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
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Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
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[edit]Noun
[edit]calorie f (plural calorieën, diminutive calorietje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: kalori
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]1845, formed from Latin calor + -ie. Cf. also French chaleur.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ka.lɔ.ʁi/
Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) - Rhymes: -i
Noun
[edit]calorie f (plural calories)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: calorie
- → Dutch: calorie
- → Romanian: calorie
- → Turkish: kalori
- → Spanish: caloría
- → Galician: caloría
- → Italian: caloria
- → Portuguese: caloria
Further reading
[edit]- “calorie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]calorie f
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]calorie f (plural calorii)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | calorie | caloria | calorii | caloriile |
| genitive-dative | calorii | caloriei | calorii | caloriilor |
| vocative | calorie, calorio | caloriilor | ||
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