ca·lor·ic (kə-lôr'ĭk, -lŏr'-)
adj.

1. Of or relating to heat: the caloric effect of sunlight.
2. Of or relating to calories: the caloric content of foods.

n.
A hypothetically indestructible, uncreatable, highly elastic, self-repellent, all-pervading fluid formerly thought responsible for the production, possession, and transfer of heat.

[French calorique, from Latin calor, heat.]

calorically ca·lor'i·cal·ly adv.

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