gram calorie

gram calorie
noun
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, ↑small calorie
• Derivationally related forms: ↑caloric (for: ↑calorie)
• Hypernyms: ↑work unit, ↑heat unit, ↑energy unit

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noun
: calorie a

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calorie (def. 1a). Abbr.: g-cal
[1900-05]

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gram calorie,
= small calorie: (Cf. ↑small calorie) »

One gram calorie is the quantity of heat which must be supplied to one gram of water to raise its temperature through one centigrade deree (Sears and Zemansky).


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