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calorie
English
Alternative forms
- calory (dated)
Etymology
Borrowed from French calorie, formed from Latin calor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kæl??i/
Noun
calorie (plural calories)
- (nutrition) Kilogram calorie or large calorie. A unit of energy 1000 times larger than the gram calorie. It is equivalent to the gram kilocalorie, approximately 4.2 kilojoules.
- (physics, chemistry, obsolete) The gram calorie or small calorie, a non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to approximately 4.2 joules. This unit was widely used in chemistry and physics, being the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C.
Usage notes
- 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
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Coralie, cariole, coalier, loricae
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French calorie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?lo??ri/
- Hyphenation: ca?lo?rie
- Rhymes: -i
Noun
calorie f (plural calorieën, diminutive calorietje n)
- calorie
Derived terms
- calorisch
French
Etymology
1845, formed from Latin calor + -ie. Cf. also French chaleur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.l?.?i/
Noun
calorie f (plural calories)
- calorie
Further reading
- “calorie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- Coralie
Italian
Noun
calorie f
- plural of caloria
Anagrams
- colerai
Romanian
Etymology
From French calorie
Noun
calorie f (plural calorii)
- calorie
Declension
calorie From the web:
- = 4.18400 joules
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olestra
English
Noun
olestra (countable and uncountable, plural olestras)
- A fat substitute (a glyceride of sucrose) that cannot be easily digested and therefore adds no fat, calories, or cholesterol to food products; also used as an industrial lubricant.
Translations
Anagrams
- altrose, oestral
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