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 a material but imponderable substance

Etymologies

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thermo- + -gen

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