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caloric

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hypothetical fluid in a now-discarded model of heat exchange, 1792, from French calorique , coined in this sense by Lavoisier, from Latin calorem "heat" (nominative calor ; see calorie ). The adjective is recorded from 1865.

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The Caloric Motorcycle Company of Chicago , Ills., was at first a motorcycle company founded in 1898 that moved to auto production in 1903.

Usage examples of caloric.

She shoved her shopping cart with the jammed back wheel up one side and down the other twice before admitting the microwavable, multiethnic cuisine that had anchored her daily caloric intake for a quarter century was also a part of her former life.

There were endless listings: research, remedies, anecdotes, case studies, stories, myths, superstitions, male, female, child, genetic antioxidants, caloric restriction, organ replacement, hormone therapy, life expectancy, gerontology.

As the new Sime's metabolism shifted from the caloric base of a Gen or child to the selyn base, the external change that captured the imagination of Gens and children was the development of tentacles sheathed along the forearm to emerge at the wrists.

But from then on, we became meat-eaters, and over half of our caloric intake was in animal products.

Macomber, inwardly disgusted by such caloric extravagance, selected the potage aux langoustes and the pheasant en casserole.

New Augusta was definitely too rich for Ecolitans, both in the complexity of the political systems and in the caloric content of the food.