caloric

caloric
calorically, adv.caloricity /kal'euh ris"i tee/, n.
/keuh lawr"ik, -lor"-/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to calories: the caloric content of food.
2. of or pertaining to heat.
3. (of engines) driven by heat.
4. high in calories: a caloric meal.
n.
5. heat.
6. Archaic. a hypothetical fluid whose presence in matter was thought to determine its thermal state.
[1785-95; < F calorique, equiv. to calor- ( < L calor heat) + -ique -IC]

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