Definition of "kilocalorie" []

• See calorie. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In order to standardize and have a clear idea of the value of each of these sources of energy, the terms kilocalorie or the conventional ton are used."
• "A Calorie aka kilocalorie is simply a unit of food energy."
• "Most people, when referring to the energy content of food, use "calorie" instead of "kilocalorie" - which is the actual unit that food energy is measured in."