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Definition of Caloric
1. Adjective. Relating to or associated with heat. "The caloric effect of sunlight"
Derivative terms: Calorie, Thermal
Partainyms: Heat, Heat, Heat
Antonyms: Nonthermal
2. Adjective. Of or relating to calories in food. "The caloric content of foods"
Definition of Caloric
1. n. The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
2. a. Of or pertaining to caloric.
Definition of Caloric
1. Adjective. (US UK rare) relating to calories ¹
2. Adjective. (US UK rare) relating to or producing heat or other energy ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) the hypothetical medium of heat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caloric
1. heat [n -S]
Medical Definition of Caloric
1. 1. Relating to a calorie. 2. Relating to heat. Origin: L. Calor, heat Caloric intake, the total number of calories in a daily diet allocation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caloric
Literary usage of Caloric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson, Thomas Cooper (1818)
"SECTION V. OF THE QUANTITY OF caloric BODIES. HAVING, in the second section of
this chapter, shown that caloric is capable of moving through all bodies ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry by Edward Turner (1828)
"As the transportation of caloric is constantly going forward, it is important to
determine by what means, and according to what laws the equilibrium is ..."
3. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1904)
"The caloric Theory.—The other school of philosophers, however, was in power till
the beginning of the nineteenth century. They held that heat was not due to ..."
4. Conversations on Chemistry: In which the Elements of that Science are by Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lee Comstock, John Lauris Blake (1836)
"But we have dwelt so lon» on the subject of free caloric, that we must reserve the
... Mrs. B. We are now to examine the other modifications .of caloric. ..."
5. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Although epidemiologie studies suggest that specific environmental and dietary
factors may be important, caloric intake alone (as reflected in body size) ..."
6. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1853)
"In relation to the caloric engine, it so happened that we were not connected.
... In regard to the original form of my caloric engine, and the operating ..."
7. Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet by Francis Gano Benedict (1919)
"These caloric intakes have been given in actual figures in the energy tables for the
... In preparing the estimate of the average caloric intake, however, ..."
8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1846)
"caloric, its mechanical, chemical and vital agencies in the Phenomena of Nature.
By SAMUEL L. METCALFE, MD, of Transylvania University. 54 vols. 8vo., pp. ..."
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