caloric

a. 热的, 热量的, (热)卡的 [医] 热的

发音

US /kəˈlɒɹɪk/

词形变化

more caloric 比较级 most caloric 最高级

别名

calorique

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The hypothetical medium of heat.

    历史 不可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Relating to calories.

    caloric intake

  2. 2.

    Containing calories.

    Milk is a caloric beverage.

  3. 3.

    Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).

    a dry, caloric food

  4. 4.

    Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

thermal thermic

相关短语

caloric deficit caloric deficits caloric density vanishing caloric density

词源

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

来源：wiktionary