different between nutrition vs kilocalorie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nyo?o-tr??-sh?n, IPA^(key): /nju??t??.??n/
• (US) enPR: no?o-tr??-sh?n, IPA^(key): /nu?t??.??n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

nutrition (usually uncountable, plural nutritions)

1. (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
2. That which nourishes; nutriment.

Derived terms

• nutritional
• nutritionalist
• nutritionally
• nutritionism
• nutritionist

Related terms

• nutrient
• nutritious
• nutriture

Translations

See also

• nutrition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin n?tr?ti?, n?tr?ti?nem, from Latin n?tri?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ny.t?i.sj??/

Noun

nutrition f (plural nutritions)

1. nutrition

Related terms

• nourrir

Further reading

• “nutrition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

nutrition (uncountable)

1. nutrition

English

Etymology

kilo- +? calorie

Noun

kilocalorie (plural kilocalories)

1. a non-SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 calories, used (now rare) in chemistry or physics; equal to 1 calorie or Calorie as used in nutrition. Symbol kcal.

Usage notes

This prefix kilo- is generally applied to the small calorie, and not to the large calorie used in nutrition, to avoid confusion because 1,000 food calories would be 1,000,000 small calories.

Translations

Italian

Noun

kilocalorie f

1. plural of kilocaloria

Romanian

Etymology

From French kilocalorie

Noun

kilocalorie f (plural kilocalorii)

1. kilocalorie

Declension