nutritionist's calorie

What does nutritionist's calorie mean?

nutritionist's 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 nutritionist's calorie?

Close synonyms include Calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large 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 nutritionist's calorie a common word?

nutritionist's 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 nutritionist's calorie come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.