Caloric

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  • adjective. Of or relating to heat.
  • adjective. Of or relating to calories.
  • noun. A hypothetically indestructible, uncreatable, highly elastic, self-repellent, all-pervading fluid formerly thought responsible for the production, possession, and transfer of heat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to heat or the principle of heat.
  • noun. The name given to a supposed subtle imponderable fluid to which the sensation and phenomena of heat were formerly attributed; hence, heat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to caloric.
  • adjective. a kind of engine operated by heated air.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. relating to calories
  • adjective. relating to or producing heat or other energy
  • noun. the hypothetical medium of heat
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or relating to calories in food
  • adjective. relating to or associated with heat
  • Word Usage
    "This modification of heat was discovered and named by Dr. Black long before the French chemists introduced the term caloric, and we must not presume to alter it, as it is still used by much better chemists than ourselves."
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