cal|o|rie

cal|o|rie
cal|o|rie or cal|o|ry «KAL uhr ee», noun, plural -ries.
1. either of two units for measuring the amount of heat: a) the quantity of heat needed to raise by one degree centigrade (Celsius) the temperature of a gram of water; small calorie: »

Careful experiments show that it takes about 80 calories of heat to melt one gram of ice (Beauchamp, Mayfield, and West).

 b) the quantity of heat needed to raise by one degree centigrade the temperature of a kilogram of water; large calorie: »

The large calorie or “kilogram-calorie” is equal to 1000 small calories (Parks and Steinbach).

2. a) a unit of the energy supplied by food. It corresponds to a large calorie. An ounce of sugar will produce about a hundred calories. b) the quantity of food capable of producing such an amount of energy.
╂[< French calor, learned borrowing from Latin, heat < calēre be hot]

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