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calorie¹
- /ˈkæləɹi/ US, UK
- /ˈkælɹi/ US, UK
Rhymes with -æləɹi
Where it comes from
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.
noun calories · calory
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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.
Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
Similar: large calorie, kilocalorie, Calorie, kilogram calorie
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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.
Holonyms: kilocalorie, calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C) < megacalorie < gigacalorie
Similar: small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
Calorie²
Where it comes from
From calorie, with a case-sensitive orthographic convention applied to mark the distinction between a small calorie and a large calorie, which are different by a factor of 1000.
noun Calories
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Synonym of kilocalorie (“large calorie”).
Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
Similar: kilocalorie
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, gram calorie, frigorie, calory, large calorie, small calorie, calorific, caloric, kcal, intake, heat, price, ingest, ingestion, malnutrition
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noun amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
| Español | caloría |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 칼로리 kallori |
| 日本語 | カロリー karorī |
| 中文 | 卡路里 kǎlùlǐ, 卡 kǎ |
| हिन्दी | कैलोरी kailorī |
| Kiswahili | kalori |
| Português | caloria |
| Français | calorie |
| Deutsch | Kalorie |
| Italiano | caloria |
| Ελληνικά | θερμίδα thermída |
| Română | calorie |
| Русский | кало́рия kalórija |
| Tiếng Việt | ca-lo, ca-lo-ri |
| العربية | سُعْر suʕr, سُعْرَة suʕra, وَحْدَة حَرَارِيَّة waḥda ḥarāriyya, كَالُورِي kaluri |
| עברית | קָלוֹרְיָה kalórya |
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title = {calorie},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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