Caloric Definition

kə-lôrĭk, -lŏr-
adjective
Of heat.
Webster's New World
Of or pertaining to calories.
Webster's New World

(US, UK rare) Relating to calories.

Caloric intake.
Wiktionary
(US, UK rare) Containing calories.
Milk is a caloric beverage.
Wiktionary
(US, UK rare) High in calories.
A dry, caloric food.
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noun
A hypothetically indestructible, uncreatable, highly elastic, self-repellent, all-pervading fluid formerly thought responsible for the production, possession, and transfer of heat.
American Heritage
An imagined substance to which the phenomena of burning and oxidation were formerly attributed.
Webster's New World
Heat.
Webster's New World

(obsolete) The hypothetical medium of heat.

Wiktionary

Origin of Caloric

  • From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French calorique from Latin calor heat kelə-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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