Meanings
calorie1
plural calories · alternative dated calory
- nutritionA non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.
Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
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Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
Biotics possess extraordinary abilities, but they must live with minor inconveniences. The most obvious issue is getting adequate nutrition. Creating biotic mass effects takes such a toll on metabolism that active biotics develop ravenous appetites. The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Biotics: Life as a Biotic Codex entryMostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3Synonyms: large calorie, kilocalorie, Calorie, kilogram calorie
- physicalchemistryA non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 joules, that can raise the temperature of a gram of water by one degree Celsius. This unit was formerly widely used in chemistry and physics.
Holonyms: kilocalorie, calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C) < megacalorie < gigacalorie
Synonyms: small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
Calorie2
plural Calories
- case-sensitiveSynonym of kilocalorie (“large calorie”).
Meronym: calorie (small calorie)
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Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
Synonyms: kilocalorie
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.
nounA non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 joules, that can raise the temperature of a gram of water by one degree Celsius. This unit was formerly widely used in chemistry and physics.
nounSynonym of kilocalorie (“large calorie”).
More synonyms by meaning
noununit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure
nouna unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
calorie · noun
- Latincalor
- Frenchcalorie
- Englishcalorie
Borrowed from French calorie, formed from Latin calor. It was originally defined as the large calorie in the early 19th century, with the small calorie being defined some decades later.
Full word history & related roots →Calorie · noun
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.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic سُعْر, سُعْرَة
- سُعْر (suʕr)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
- سُعْرَة (suʕra)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
- وَحْدَة حَرَارِيَّة (waḥda ḥarāriyya)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
- كَالُورِي (kaluri)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Bengali ক্যালরি
- ক্যালরি (kêlori)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Bulgarian кало́рия
- кало́рия (kalórija)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Catalan caloria
- caloriaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Chinese Cantonese 卡路里
- 卡路里 (kaa¹ lou⁶ lei⁵)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Chinese Mandarin 卡路里, 卡
- 卡路里 (kǎlùlǐ)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
- 卡 (kǎ)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Czech kalorie
- kalorieamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Danish kalorie
- kalorieamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Dutch calorie
- calorieamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Esperanto kalorio
- kalorioamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Estonian kalor
- kaloramount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Finnish kalori
- kaloriamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
French calorie
- calorieamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
German Kalorie
- Kalorieamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Greek θερμίδα
- θερμίδα (thermída)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Hawaiian ikehuʻā
- ikehuʻāamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Hebrew קָלוֹרְיָה
- קָלוֹרְיָה (kalórya)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Hindi कैलोरी
- कैलोरी (kailorī)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Hungarian kalória
- kalóriaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Icelandic kaloría, hitaeining
- kaloríaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
- hitaeiningamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Indonesian kalori
- kaloriamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Irish calra
- calraamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Italian caloria
- caloriaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Japanese カロリー
- カロリー (karorī)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Korean 칼로리
- 칼로리 (kallori)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Latvian kalorija
- kalorijaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Lithuanian kalorija
- kalorijaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Malay kalori
- kaloriamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Māori karori
- karoriamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Norwegian Bokmål kalori
- kaloriamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Polish kaloria
- kaloriaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Portuguese caloria
- caloriaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Romanian calorie
- calorieamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Russian кало́рия
- кало́рия (kalórija)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Scottish Gaelic calaraidh
- calaraidhamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Slovak kalória
- kalóriaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Spanish caloría
- caloríaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Swahili kalori
- kaloriamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Swedish kalori
- kaloriamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Tagalog sambilang-init, kaloriya
- sambilang-initamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
- kaloriyaamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Thai แคลอรี
- แคลอรี (kɛɛ-lɔɔ-rîi)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Turkish kalori
- kaloriamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Ukrainian кало́рія
- кало́рія (kalórija)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Urdu کَیلوری
- کَیلوری (kailorī)amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Vietnamese ca-lo, ca-lo-ri
- ca-loamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
- ca-lo-riamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Welsh calori
- caloriamount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
calorie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calorie
“calorie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calorie. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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