About The Word Calorie
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Calorie
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What's The Definition Of Calorie?
[n] 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
[n] 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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Calorie: gram calorie | small calorie Related Terms | Find terms related to Calorie: atomerg | British thermal unit | BTU | 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 See Also | Calorie | energy unit | heat unit | kilocalorie | kilogram calorie | large calorie | nutritionist's calorie | work unit Calorie In Webster's Dictionary \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}.
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