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Plural of calorie

regular plural

The plural of calorie is calories.

Forms of calorie

Singularcalorie /ˈkæləɹi/
Pluralcalories
Countablecountable

Calories 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
  • We like to drink skim milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.From the entry skim milk
  • We like to drink skimmed milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.From the entry skimmed milk
  • To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.From the entry equivalent

Meaning of calorie

  1. 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.
  2. noun 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.

Full definition of calorie

Questions about the plural of calorie

What is the plural of calorie?
The plural of calorie is calories.
Is calorie countable?
Calorie is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calorie (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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