[syn: calorie, gram calorie, small calorie]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Calorie \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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Calorie
n 1: 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 [syn:
Calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large
calorie, nutritionist's calorie]
2: 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 [syn: calorie, gram
calorie, small calorie]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "calorie":
BTU, British thermal unit, atomerg, 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