nutritionist's calorie

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noun

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
• Syn:
Calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large calorie
• Derivationally related forms:
caloric (for: Calorie)
• Hypernyms:
work unit, heat unit, energy unit
• Part Meronyms:
calorie, gram calorie, small calorie