calorie unit
11calorie — /kal euh ree/, n. 1. Thermodynam. a. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbr.: cal b. (usually cap.) kilocalorie. Abbr.: Cal 2. Physiol. a. a unit equal to the kilocalorie, used to express… …
12Calorie — A unit of food energy. In nutrition terms, the word calorie is used instead of the more precise scientific term kilocalorie. A kilocalorie represents the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a liter of water one degree centigrade …
13calorie — /ˈkæləri / (say kaluhree), /ˈkeɪləri/ (say kayluhree) noun 1. a. Also, gram calorie, small calorie. a non SI unit of measurement for quantity of heat, originally defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of… …
14Calorie — The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit of water, at or near the temperature of maximum density, one degree Celsius (or Centigrade); expressed as a small calorie (the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1… …
15Calorie — (kcal or Cal) a common name for the MKS unit of heat energy. This unit is properly called the kilocalorie; it is also called the kilogram calorie or large calorie. It is often (but certainly not always!) distinguished from the small calorie by …
16calorie — (cal) the CGS unit of heat energy. This calorie (also called a gram calorie or small calorie) is the amount of heat required at a pressure of one atmosphere to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. Unfortunately,… …
17calorie — Two different calorie units are used by scientists. The calorie used by medical science is a small heat unit. It equals the heat required to raise the them of one gram of water one degree Celsius. The calorie used by engineering science is a… …
18calorie — n. a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water from 14.5°C to 15.5°C (the 15° calorie). One Calorie (also known as the kilocalorie or kilogram calorie) is equal to 1000 calories; this unit is… …
19unit — 1. One; a single person or thing. 2. A standard of measure, weight, or any other quality, by multiplications or fractions of which a scale or system is formed. 3. A group of persons or things considered as a whole because of mutual activities or… …
20calorie — cal|o|rie [ˈkæləri] n [Date: 1800 1900; : French; Origin: Latin calor heat ] 1.) a unit for measuring the amount of ↑energy that food will produce ▪ An average potato has about 90 calories. ▪ a calorie controlled diet low calorie/high calorie ▪ …
