What does caloric mean?

Definitions for caloric
kəˈlɔr ɪk, -ˈlɒr-caloric

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. thermal, thermic, caloricadjective

    relating to or associated with heat

    "thermal movements of molecules"; "thermal capacity"; "thermic energy"; "the caloric effect of sunlight"

  2. caloricadjective

    of or relating to calories in food

    "comparison of foods on a caloric basis"; "the caloric content of foods"

Wiktionary

  1. caloricnoun

    the hypothetical medium of heat

  2. caloricadjective

    relating to calories

  3. caloricadjective

    relating to or producing heat or other energy

Wikipedia

  1. Caloric

    Caloric is a brand of kitchen appliances, which dates back to 1903.

ChatGPT

  1. caloric

    Caloric is generally defined as the property or characteristic related to heat or calorie content in the context of food, nutrition, and diet. It also refers to a hypothetical form of matter once thought to be responsible for the production and transfer of heat energy.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Caloricnoun

    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. Caloricadjective

    of or pertaining to caloric

  3. Etymology: [L. calor heat; cf. F. calorique.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Caloric

    ka-lor′ik, n. heat: the supposed principle or cause of heat.—n. Calores′cence, the transmutation of heat rays into luminous rays.—adj. Calorif′ic, causing heat: heating.—ns. Calorificā′tion; Calorim′eter, an instrument for measuring the specific heat of a body; Calorim′etry, the art or process of measuring heat; Cal′orist, one who held heat to be a subtle fluid called caloric; Cal′ory, the usually accepted thermal unit, being the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a kilogram of water from 0° to 1° centigrade. [Fr. calorique, formed by Lavoisier from L. calor, heat.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Caloric

    the name given by physicists to the presumed subtle element which causes heat.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of caloric in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of caloric in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of caloric in a Sentence

  1. Deborah Feldman:

    Patients who are not moving don't really have any caloric expenditure, but they're also not eating.

  2. Van Horn:

    As a nutrition researcher who served on both the 2010 and 2020 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees, I can confirm that intake of dietary sugar in the US is more than twice the recommended amount( less than 10 % of total daily caloric intake) and while the direct impact of sugar itself offers minimal, if any, nutritional benefits, it further replaces foods that do.

  3. Lisa Drayer:

    I think a lot of people think that just because something is natural, it's healthy, so for example, honey is natural, but it's very caloric and a lot of people might not know that a teaspoon of honey, or agave for that matter, has more calories than a teaspoon of sugar or sucrose.

  4. Pamela Peeke:

    There's tremendous variability in how a 3,500 caloric deficit affects different people.

  5. Robert Kauffman:

    Many men and women – despite good patient education efforts – simply elect not to take medication, fail to change habits like being sedentary with no exercise program, refuse to change dietary and caloric intake, etc., some of this is disease denial. If they feel healthy, they rationalize taking medication is not needed.

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