calorie

Significat (Anglès)

1. Kilogram calorie or large calorie. A unit of energy 1000 times larger than the gram calorie. It is equivalent to the gram kilocalorie, 4.184 kilojoules. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.
2. (physical) The gram calorie or small calorie, a non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 joules. This unit was formerly widely used in chemistry and physics, being the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C.

Sinònims

gram calorie

small calorie

cal

c

c

heat capacity

heat unit

kilogram calorie

quantity of heat

Calorie

nutritionist’s calorie

caloric unit

unit of heat

calorie unit

calorific value

large calorie

thermal unit

Traduccions

calorie

Kalorie

caloría

calorie

kalori

kilocalorie

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkæləɹi/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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.

Frases

The larger the calorie deficit , the faster one will lose weight .