calorie
Syllables: cal·or·ieUK/ˈkæləɹi/
calorie noun: 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.
Noun (1)
calorie (plural calories)
- 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
- Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
- Synonyms:
- large calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie
- 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
- Synonyms:
- small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
Noun (2) capitalized: Calorie
Calorie (plural Calories)
- Synonym of kilocalorie (“large calorie”).
- Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
- Meronym: calorie (small calorie)
- Synonyms:
- kilocalorie
calorie meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
calorie in Hindi
- amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
- कैलोरी kailorī
calorie in Tamil
- வெப்பளி, கனலி, கலோரி, எரிசத்தி அலகு, காலரி, வெப்ப அலகு
calorie in Marathi
- उष्मांक
calorie in Urdu
- amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
- کَیلوری kailorī
More languagesFewer languages
- calorie in Bengali
- ক্যালরি kêlori
- calorie in Malayalam
- കലോറി kalōṟi
- calorie in Kannada
- ಶಾಖದ ಮಾನ, ಉಷ್ಣದ ಮಾನ, ತಾಪಮಾನದ ಪ್ರಮಾಣ, ಆಹಾರಾಂಶ ಮಾಪಕ
- calorie in Pashto
- کالوري kālorí, کلوري kalorí
- calorie in Tagalog
- sambilang-init, kaloriya
- calorie in Arabic
- سُعْر suʕr, سُعْرَة suʕra, وَحْدَة حَرَارِيَّة waḥda ḥarāriyya, كَالُورِي kaluri
- calorie in Malay
- kalori
- calorie in Indonesian
- kalori
- calorie in Thai
- แคลอรี kɛɛ-lɔɔ-rîi
- calorie in Vietnamese
- ca-lo, ca-lo-ri
- calorie in Myanmar
- ကယ်လိုရီ kailuiri
Examples of calorie in a sentence
- The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Biotics: Life as a Biotic Codex entry:
- It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible.2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
Synonyms of calorie
Forms of calorie
| plural | calories |
|---|---|
| plural | Calories |
| alternative form (dated) | calory |
Origin of calorie
Borrowed from French calorie, formed from Latin calor. It was originally defined as the large calorie in the early 19th century, with the small calorie being defined some decades later.
From calorie, with a case-sensitive orthographic convention applied to mark the distinction between a small calorie and a large calorie, which are different by a factor of 1000.
Words formed from calorie
- 15° calorie
- 20° calorie
- 4° calorie
- a calorie is a calorie
- a calorie is a calorie is a calorie
- caloric
- calorics
- calorie bomb
- calorie-conscious
- calorie deficit
- calorie-ful
- calorieless
- calorie-restricted
- calorific
- calorific value
- calorimetre
- calorize
- empty calorie
- food calorie
- gram calorie
- high-calorie
- kilogram calorie
- large calorie
- low-calorie
- mean calorie
- megacalorie
- microcalorie
- millicalorie
- small calorie
- thermochemical calorie
Phrases with calorie
Words that rhyme with calorie
Questions about calorie
- What does calorie mean?
- Calorie means 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.
- What is calorie in Hindi?
- Calorie in Hindi is कैलोरी (kailorī). See Calorie meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use calorie in a sentence?
- The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat.
- What part of speech is calorie?
- Calorie is a noun.
- How do you pronounce calorie?
- Calorie is pronounced /ˈkæləɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of calorie?
- The plural of calorie is calories.
Words near calorie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: calorie (page history and authors); Calorie (page history and authors); calorie (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); calorie (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); കലോറി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); calorie (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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