calorie
Significado (Inglês)
- Kilogram calorie or large calorie. A unit of energy 1000 times larger than the gram calorie. It is equivalent to the gram kilocalorie, about 4.2 kilojoules.
- (obsolete) 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.
Sinônimos
small calorie
heat unit
quantity of heat
Calorie
nutritionist’s calorie
caloric unit
unit of heat
calorie unit
large calorie
thermal unit
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Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈkæləɹi/
Etimologia (Inglês)
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.
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