calorie

Meaning of calorie

noun
  1. (nutrition) Kilogram calorie or large calorie. A unit of energy 1000 times larger than the gram calorie. It is equivalent to the gram kilocalorie, approximately 4.2 kilojoules.
  2. The gram calorie or small calorie, a non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to approximately 4.2 joules. This unit was widely used in chemistry and physics, being the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C.

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  • It is a name.
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Hyphenation of calorie

calo-rie

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • calorie is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

calorie synonyms

Meaning Calorie:

Calorie, kilocalorie

Translation of calorie

Anagrams of calorie

cariole, Coralie, coalier, loricae

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