KILOCALORIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kilocalorie mean? 

• KILOCALORIE (noun)
  The noun KILOCALORIE has 1 sense:

1. a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food

  Familiarity information: KILOCALORIE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KILOCALORIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

Calorie; kilocalorie; kilogram calorie; large calorie; nutritionist's calorie

Hypernyms ("kilocalorie" is a kind of...):

energy unit; heat unit; work unit (a unit of measurement for work)

Meronyms (parts of "kilocalorie"):

calorie; gram calorie; small calorie (unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure)

 Context examples 

The research has also quantified exactly how many extra calories we burn when we remain standing: 45 kilocalories more, per six-hour period, than when lying or sitting.

(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)

The values for food energy are expressed in kilocalories (kcal) or kilojoules (kJ).

(Food Energy, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Food energy expressed in kilocalories.

(Food Energy in Kilocalories, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)