Thermodynamics: The amount of → heat, in the
→ CGS system, required to raise the temperature of one
gram of water from 14.5 °C to 15.5 °C at standard pressure. It is equal
to 4.1858 → joules, a quantity called the 15° calorie.
Also called gram-calorie, small calorie.
Physiology:
A unit used to express the heat output of an organism and the fuel or
energy value of food. It is equal to one kilocalorie.
See also: From Fr. calorie, from L. calor “heat,”
calidus “warm;”
PIE base *kelə- “cold; warm;”
Av. sarəta- “cold;” Mod.Pers.
sard “cold, cool;” Skt. śiśira- “cold;”
Ossetian sald “cold,” Lith. šaltas “cold,”
silti “become warm;” Welsh clyd “cool.”
