large calorie

Questions about large calorie

What does large calorie mean?

large calorie means "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".

What is another word for large calorie?

Close synonyms include Calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, nutritionist's calorie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is large calorie a common word?

large calorie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for large calorie come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.