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calorique

calorique is the obsolete spelling of caloric.

Meaning of caloric

Noun

caloric (uncountable)

  1. (historical) 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

See all 5 meanings of caloric

Origin of calorique

From French calorique.

Questions about calorique

What is calorique the obsolete spelling of?
Calorique is the obsolete spelling of caloric.

Words near calorique in the dictionary

  1. calorimetrically
  2. calorimetries
  3. calorimetry
  4. calorimotor
  5. calorimotors
  6. calorique
  7. Caloris
  8. Caloris Planitia
  9. calorisator
  10. calorisators
  11. calorise

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