कैलोरी — meaning in English

English meaning

• calorie noun A unit of food energy (technically a kilocalorie) used on nutrition labels to measure how much energy a food provides.

Senses

कैलोरी is used for these senses in English:

• calorie amount of heat to raise 1 gram of water by 1 °C

calorie — full definition

1. noun A unit of food energy (technically a kilocalorie) used on nutrition labels to measure how much energy a food provides.
2. noun In science, a much smaller unit of heat energy — the amount needed to raise one gram of water by one degree Celsius — mostly replaced by the joule.