meaning of calories
1. The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
2. Of or pertaining to caloric.
3. of or relating to calories in food; "comparison of foods on a caloric basis"; "the caloric content of
">foods"
Related Words
caloric | caloricity | caloriduct | calorie | calorie chart | calorifacient | calorifere | calorifiant | calorific | calorification | calorificient | calorimeter | calorimetric | calorimetry | calorimotor |
