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calorific
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Word definitions for calorific in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN value ▪ The calorific value of that on an ordinary definitive stamp is 5.9. ▪ The 130,000 tonnes of litter consumed each year has about half the calorific value of coal. ▪ The charcoals produced from different species ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context British English) Relating to calorie. 2 (context British physics English) Relating to or produce heat or other energy.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. heat-generating; "the calorific properties of fuels"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calorific \Cal`o*rif"ic\, a. [L. calorificus; calor heat + facere to make; cf. F. calorifique.] Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating. Calorific rays , the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sun, and from burning and heated bodies. ...
Usage examples of calorific.
He chose the least calorific, thin sliced red beef and ratatouille froide, and settled back with a sigh of contentment.
The researches under way show the wide variation in chemical composition and calorific value of the various crude oils, indicate the possibility of the extraction of coal constituents by solvents, and point to important results relative to the equilibrium of gases at high temperatures in furnaces and gas producers.
Carefully and comprehensively, he covered every aspect and detail of the situation with a calorific lavishness of imagery that would have warmed the cockles of a sergeant-major's heart.
Food plays such an important part in anybody's life in the military-not so much for the calorific value and the fact that it keeps you warm as for the fact that it's one of the only areas where you're going to get variety and can spend time doing something entirely for yourself.
Depositing Polyeidus behind the cover of a rim-rock, I was to blindfold Pegasus, put upon my spear-tip several sheets of paper from the prophet's briefcase impregnated with a magical calorific, and thrust my spear deep into the cave.
Selina is in high spirits, and as for me, I'm a gurgling wizard of calorific excess.
A brilliant sun, but without any calorific action, was just issuing from the ocean.
Some day the coalrooms of steamers and the tenders of locomotives will, instead of coal, be stored with these two condensed gases, which will burn in the furnaces with enormous calorific power.
Each metal by itself would undergo oxidation with greater or less intensity, and the calorific energy hidden in it would become free in the form of heat.