calorie

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calorie - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Calorie \Cal"o*rie\, n. [F., fr. L. calor heat.] (Physics)
     The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount
     of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram
     (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from
     0[deg] to 1[deg]. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound
     .
     [1913 Webster]

calorie - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Calorie
      n 1: a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to
           raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one
           degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to
           characterize the energy-producing potential in food [syn:
           Calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large calorie
           , nutritionist's calorie]
      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 [syn: calorie, gram   calorie
         , small calorie]

calorie - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "calorie":
     BTU, British thermal unit, atomerg, dinamode, dyne, energid, erg,
     foot-pound, great calorie, horsepower-hour, horsepower-year, joule,
     kilocalorie, kilogram-meter, kilowatt-hour, photon, quantum,
     rational calorie, therm, thermal unit