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- noun The amount of
energy needed to raise thetemperature of a gram ofwater by adegree centigrade : a unit of measure of energy.
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- noun unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure
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