Calorie

See also: calorie

English

Etymology

From calorie, with a case-sensitive orthographic convention applied to mark the distinction between a small calorie and a large calorie, which are different by a factor of 1000.

Noun

Calorie (plural Calories)

  2. (case-sensitive) Synonym of kilocalorie (“large calorie”).
    Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
    Meronym: calorie (small calorie)
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