Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fluid formerly supposed to exist which was known as caloric (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Old Chem.) Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but imponderable substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry, obsolete
heat , regarded as amaterial butimponderable substance
Etymologies
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thermo- + -gen
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