Caloric
Caloric , noun
[Latin calor heat; compare French calorique.]
(Physics) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
Caloric expands all bodies.
Caloric , adjective
Of or pertaining to caloric.
Collocations (1)
Caloric engine , a kind of engine operated by heated air.