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ca·lor·ic  audio  (k-lôrk, -lr-) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
  1. Of or relating to heat: the caloric effect of sunlight.
  2. Of or relating to calories: the caloric content of foods.
NOUN:
A hypothetically indestructible, uncreatable, highly elastic, self-repellent, all-pervading fluid formerly thought responsible for the production, possession, and transfer of heat.
ETYMOLOGY:
French calorique, from Latin calor, heat; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
ca·lori·cal·ly(Adverb)


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