caloric

adj

1. Relating to calories.

   “caloric intake”

   “This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.”

2. Containing calories.

   “Milk is a caloric beverage.”

3. Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).

   “a dry, caloric food”

4. Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).

noun

1. (historical, uncountable)The hypothetical medium of heat.

   “The fluid matter of heat, or Calorique, in which all bodies are immersed, is as necessary to vegetable as to animal existence.”

   “Caloric expands all bodies.”

   “I offered apologies to her beautyship, but she grew furious; and the fiery spots on her face became red-hot with the caloric of anger […]”