caloric
/kəˈlɒɹɪk/
caloric adjective: relating to calories.
Adjective
caloric (comparative more caloric, superlative most caloric)
- 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.2019 July 16, Anahad O’Connor, “Cutting 300 Calories a Day Shows Health Benefits”, in The New York Times
- Containing calories.
- Milk is a caloric beverage.
- Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
- a dry, caloric food
- Synonyms:
- calorific
- Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
- Synonyms:
- calorific
Noun
caloric (uncountable)
- 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.1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 45
- Caloric expands all bodies.1799, William Henry, Elements of Experimental Chemistry
caloric meaning in Tamil
caloric in Tamil
- கலோரிக், கனலி
Examples of caloric in a sentence
- This plasma provides a very intense caloric energy and a very strong kinetic energy.
- She needs only one kind of thing, caloric fluid, to explain the movement and behavior of heat.
- A breakfast highlight is the “bruffin”, a delicious but caloric muffin crossed with a brioche.
Synonyms of caloric
Antonyms
Forms of caloric
| comparative | more caloric |
|---|---|
| superlative | most caloric |
Origin of caloric
From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).
Words formed from caloric
- acaloric
- barocaloric
- barocalorics
- calorically
- caloric deficit
- caloric density
- caloricist
- caloricity
- calorics
- calorific value
- elastocaloric
- elastocalorics
- electrocaloric
- electrocalorics
- equicaloric
- eucaloric
- hypercaloric
- hypocaloric
- ionocaloric
- ionocalorics
- isocaloric
- low-caloric
- magnetocaloric
- magnetocalorics
- mechanocaloric
- multicaloric
- normocaloric
- oxycaloric
Phrases with caloric
Words that rhyme with caloric
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Questions about caloric
- What does caloric mean?
- Caloric means relating to calories.
- What is caloric in Tamil?
- Caloric in Tamil is கலோரிக், கனலி. See Caloric meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is caloric?
- Caloric can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce caloric?
- Caloric is pronounced /kəˈlɒɹɪk/.
Words near caloric in the dictionary
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