caloric
adjective
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Pronunciation: /kəˈlɒɹɪk/ / /ˈkæləɹɪk/
adj
Etymology: From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).
- Relating to calories.
“caloric intake”
“This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.”
- Containing calories.
“Milk is a caloric beverage.”
- Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
“a dry, caloric food”
- Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
noun
Etymology: From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).
- The hypothetical medium of heat.
“The fluid matter of heat, or Calorique, in which all bodies are immersed, is as necessary to vegetable as to animal existence.”
“Caloric expands all bodies.”