caloric meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

caloric

adj

/kəˈlɒɹɪk/ · /ˈkæləɹɪk/

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

Relating to calories.

caloric intake
This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.2019 July 16, Anahad O’Connor, “Cutting 300 Calories a Day Shows Health Benefits”, in The New York Times:

Containing calories.

Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).

Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).

Synonyms: calorific
Antonyms: noncaloric
Derived terms: 28 terms
acaloric, barocaloric, barocalorics, calorically, caloric deficit, caloric density, caloricist, caloricity, calorics, calorific value, elastocaloric, elastocalorics, electrocaloric, electrocalorics, equicaloric, eucaloric, hypercaloric, hypocaloric, ionocaloric, ionocalorics, isocaloric, low-caloric, magnetocaloric, magnetocalorics, mechanocaloric, multicaloric, normocaloric, oxycaloric
Coordinate terms: endothermic, exothermic, thermodynamic

noun

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

Historical The hypothetical medium of heat.

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

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I offered apologies to her beautyship, but she grew furious; and the fiery spots on her face became red-hot with the caloric of anger […]1849, M. R. C. S, Confessions of a Hypochondriac, page 94: