English Explanatory Dictionary

caloric

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating to calories.
  2. Containing calories.
  3. Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
  4. Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
noun
  1. The hypothetical medium of heat.

Pronunciation

/kəˈlɒɹɪk/ /ˈkæləɹɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-caloric.wav

Word forms

caloric more caloric most caloric

Etymology

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

Synonyms

calorific

Antonyms

noncaloric

Derived words

acaloric barocaloric barocalorics calorically caloric deficit caloric density caloricist caloricity calorics calorific value elastocaloric elastocalorics electrocaloric electrocalorics equicaloric eucaloric hypercaloric hypocaloric ionocaloric ionocalorics isocaloric low-caloric magnetocaloric magnetocalorics mechanocaloric multicaloric normocaloric oxycaloric
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