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cal.

cal. is the clipping of calorie.

cal. is the clipping of calibre.

cal. is the alternative form of cal.

Meaning of calorie

Noun

calorie (plural calories)

  1. (nutrition) A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.
    • Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
  2. (physical) A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 joules, that can raise the temperature of a gram of water by one degree Celsius. This unit was formerly widely used in chemistry and physics.
    • Holonyms: kilocalorie, calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C) < megacalorie < gigacalorie

See all 3 meanings of calorie

Meaning of cal

Noun (1)

cal (uncountable)

  1. (Cornwall, UK, archaic, dialectal) wolfram, an ore of tungsten.

Noun (2)

cal (uncountable)

  1. Calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).

See all 7 meanings of cal

Proper noun capitalized: Cal.

Cal.

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of California: a state of the United States, as used in case citations.

Forms of cal.

pluralcals.

Words formed from cal.

Questions about cal.

What is cal. the clipping of?
Cal. is the clipping of calorie.
What part of speech is cal.?
Cal. is a proper noun.

Words near cal. in the dictionary

  1. Cal States
  2. Cal Tech
  3. Cal-igang
  4. Cal-Mex
  5. Cal-Nev-Ari
  6. cal.
  7. Cala
  8. Calaasan
  9. Calaba
  10. calaban
  11. Calabanga

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cal. (page history and authors); Cal. (page history and authors); calorie (page history and authors); cal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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