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nutritionist's_calorie
has definitions from the field of physics
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[ noun ] (physics) 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
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[ noun ] (physics) unit of energy-producing potential in food and released by oxidation; equal to a kilocalorie of heat
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