Exact Match:
- calorie
- unit 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
- a 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
Synonyms:
- BTU,
- British thermal unit,
- atomerg,
- dinamode,
- dyne,
- energid,
- erg,
- foot-pound,
- great calorie,
- horsepower-hour,
- horsepower-year,
- joule,
- kilocalorie,
- kilogram-meter,
- kilowatt-hour,
- photon,
- quantum,
- rational calorie,
- therm,
- thermal unit