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Definition of Kilocalories
1. kilocalorie [n] - See also: kilocalorie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kilocalories
Literary usage of Kilocalories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Estimates from Household by Lisa C. Smith, Harold Alderman, Dede Aduayom (2006)
"... and FAO estimates of national per capita dietary energy consumption (kilocalories •
person~1 • day~1) which is approximated as the calorie availability ..."
2. Rebuilding After War: Micro-Level Determinants of Poverty Reduction in by Kenneth Simler (2004)
"The requirements range from 820 kilo- calories per day for children less than
one year old to 3000 kilocalories per day for males between the ages of 18 and ..."
3. Access to Credit and Its Impact on Welfare in Malawi by Aliou Diagne, Manfred Zeller (2001)
"The average per capita daily intake in the sample is 2199 kilocalories, which is
almost the same as the 2200 kilocalories per person per day recommended for ..."
4. The Natural history of digestion by Alexander Lockhart Gillespie (1904)
"Experiments on men enclosed in a chamber, or calorimeter, designed for the direct
estimation of the heat given off, show that during sleep 40 kilocalories ..."
5. The Electrical Engineer (1898)
"The kilocalories generated by this " falling together " are 56'5, for which
kinetic energy we are debtor to the potential energy intrinsic to the metal. ..."
6. Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General by Audrey F. Manley (1998)
"In that group, a daily average of 150 kilocalories greater expenditure in
light-to-moderate activity was associated with a 27 percent lower CHD mortality ..."
7. The U. N. Role in the Persian Gulf and Iraqi Compliance with U. N. Resolutions by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"In September"1990, the Government of Iraq introduced a new rationing system
consisting of seven basic food items designed to provide about 2450'kilocalories ..."
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