caloric en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈkæləɹɪk/
- (US) audio
- /kəˈlɒɹɪk/
Etymology
From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).
Meanings
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Relating to calories.
This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.
2019 July 16, Anahad O’Connor, “Cutting 300 Calories a Day Shows Health Benefits”, in The New York Times:caloric intake
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Containing calories.
Milk is a caloric beverage.
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Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
a dry, caloric food
- Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most caloric | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more caloric | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
endothermic · exothermic · thermodynamic
Deriveds
caloric deficit · acaloric · eucaloric · elastocaloric · normocaloric · equicaloric · oxycaloric · ionocalorics · electrocaloric · barocaloric · hypocaloric · calorics · elastocalorics · mechanocaloric · caloricity · caloricist · caloric density · calorically · calorific value · ionocaloric · magnetocalorics · low-caloric · barocalorics · electrocalorics · hypercaloric · magnetocaloric · isocaloric · multicaloric
Synonyms
calorific · calorific · calorific
Translations (5)
fi kaloripitoinen (containing calories) · ca calòric (relating to calories) · fi kalorinen (relating to calories) · ca calòric (containing calories) · fi runsaskalorinen (high in calories and thus likely fattening — see also calorific)