Meaning & use
caloric
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Relating to calories or to heat, especially in the context of food energy.
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Athletes in training often track their daily caloric intake closely.
The diet plan emphasizes caloric balance rather than eliminating entire food groups.
A note on using this word
Historically tied to the obsolete 'caloric theory', which treated heat as a weightless fluid called 'caloric'; the word survives mainly in its modern nutritional sense.
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thermalenergy-related
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