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Noun calorie has 2 senses
- calorie, gram calorie, small 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
--1 is a kind of work unit, heat unit, energy unit
--1 is a part of
- Calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie - 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
--2 is a kind of work unit, heat unit, energy unit
--2 has parts: calorie, gram calorie, small calorie
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