calorific value

American  

noun

1. the amount of heat released by a unit weight or unit volume of a substance during complete combustion.

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calorific value British  

noun

1. the quantity of heat produced by the complete combustion of a given mass of a fuel, usually expressed in joules per kilogram

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Example Sentences

“From my point of view, however, meat was and is not necessarily nutritionally relevant. Proteins alone do not have a particularly high calorific value,” Kindler adds.

From Scientific American

Ten years ago, we were the first brand to make transparent the calorific value of our food, and then everybody followed.

From New York Times

But simply introducing otters into urchin barrens would not work as the starving shells are of little calorific value to the mammals.

From The Guardian

This bait often consists of fish heads which hold little calorific value compared with the sharks’ usual diet, suggesting it is unlikely that individual sharks could obtain enough bait to lead to conditioning, and so they would not form an association between food and boats/humans.

From The Guardian

Lardy Vardy given the calorific value of crisps.

From The Guardian