caloric

See also: calòric

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calorie +‎ -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

caloric (comparative more caloric, superlative most caloric)

Relating to calories.
caloric intake
Containing calories.
Milk is a caloric beverage.
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”).

For the senses "relating to calories" and "relating to or producing heat", caloric is the usual form in the US, and calorific is the usual form in the UK.

relating to calories

containing calories

high in calories and thus likely fattening — see also calorific

relating to or producing heat or other energy — see also calorific

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Caloric theory

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caloric (uncountable)

(historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 45:
  The fluid matter of heat, or Calorique, in which all bodies are immersed, is as necessary to vegetable as to animal existence.
- 1799, William Henry, Elements of Experimental Chemistry:
  Caloric expands all bodies.

caloric (not comparable)

caloric m or n (feminine singular calorică, masculine plural calorici, feminine and neuter plural calorice)

Declension of caloric