calories

Meaning of calories

noun
  1. (nutrition) Kilogram calorie or large calorie. A unit of energy 1000 times larger than the gram calorie. It is equivalent to the gram kilocalorie, approximately 4.2 kilojoules.
  2. The gram calorie or small calorie, a non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to approximately 4.2 joules. This unit was widely used in chemistry and physics, being the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C.

Information about calories

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of calories is: calory.
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Hyphenation of calories

calo-ries

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • calories is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of calories

carioles, Escorial, scariole

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