calorie
/ˈkæləri/
noun
- A unit of energy, especially the energy that food provides to the body when it is eaten and digested.
- Reading food labels helps you keep track of how many calories you eat.
- She burned 300 calories during her morning run.
- An apple has about 95 calories, making it a low-calorie snack.
- A small unit of heat energy used in science; the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius.
- The experiment calculated the calories required to heat the water sample.
- One food Calorie is actually equal to 1,000 scientific calories.
- In chemistry class, they measured the calories released when the fuel burned.