nutritionist's calorie

nu·tri·tion·ist's calorie (n-trsh-nsts, ny-)

n.

See calorie.

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nutritionist's calorie - 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 Calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie energy unit, heat unit, work unit - a unit of measurement for work gram calorie, small calorie, 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