calorie

Etymology
Borrowed from, formed from. It was originally defined as the large calorie in the early 19th century, with the small calorie being defined some decades later.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Usage notes

 * Most scientific studies are now carried out using the joule (an SI unit).
 * In nutritional contexts the term calorie refers to the kilogram calorie and the term kilocalorie refers to 1000 gram calories. Thus the two terms are equivalent.
 * Calorie counters, such as those on fitness bikes, use the first, more modern, definition.
 * European legislation now requires foods to be labelled with the term kilocalorie.

Translations

 * Arabic: سُعْر, سُعْرَة, وَحْدَة حَرَارِيَّة, كَالُورِي
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: kaloriya
 * Bulgarian: кало́рия
 * Catalan: caloria
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kalorie
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kalorio
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: caloría
 * Georgian: კალორია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: ikehuʻā
 * Hindi: कैलोरी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: calra
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Maltese: kalorija
 * Maori: karori
 * Navajo: chʼiyáán bibee adziil
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kalori
 * Occitan:
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 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: calaraidh
 * Serbo-Croatian: калорија,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kalori
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sambilang-init
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: calori
 * Yoruba: kálórì

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) calorie

Etymology
1845, formed from +. Cf. also French.

Etymology
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