kilocalorie

From kilo- +‎ calorie.

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kilocalorie (plural kilocalories)

2. A non-SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 calories (small calories), used (now rare) in chemistry or physics; equal to 1 calorie as used in nutrition. Symbol kcal.

   Synonyms: calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C), kilogram calorie

   Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie

   Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie

• This prefix kilo- is applied only to the small calorie, and not to the large calorie used in nutrition, to avoid confusion because 1,000 food calories would be 1,000,000 small calories.

kilocalorie f (plural kilocalories)

1. kilocalorie

• “kilocalorie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

kilocalorie f

1. plural of kilocaloria

Borrowed from French kilocalorie. By surface analysis, kilo- +‎ calorie.

kilocalorie f (plural kilocalorii)

1. kilocalorie