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noun [C, U] 1 a quiet and peaceful time or situation :f- # W W iffl; o' $ W : the calm of a summer evening JfHf£f!&fitiTl$o The police appealed for calm.

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Calor gas™ /' kaela gaes; NAmE 'kaelar/ (BrE) (US 'cooking gas) noun [U] a type of gas stored as a liquid under pres­sure in metal containers and used for heating and cooking in places where there is no gas supply MI ®

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cal-orie /'kaelari/ noun 1 a unit for measuring how much energy food will produce X , ff ( S'] it ft VJI ) : No sugar for me, thanksI’m counting my calories. $ ^ K $|, ill ill „ $ 4 }£ ©J &U1X Wt 1 = 0 a low-calorie dr ink/diet fft M fl'j if tj / if It 2 (tech­nical iff) a unit for measuring a quantity of heat; the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water by one degree Celsius {?, Rj® ft (

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cal or ific /.kaela'rifik/ adj. [usually before noun] (technical ft if) connected with or producing heat (         ) RM; f':

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calorimeter /,k®l8‘rimito(r)/ noun (technical ft if) a device which measures the amount of heat in a chem­ical reaction iftftit;

caique /kaelk/ (also loan translation) noun (linguistics if gj a word or expression in a language that is a trans­lation of a word or expression in another language if i£il, ( thili^ifWiifisI ) : “Traffic calming’

is a caique of the German “Verkehrsberuhigung’. * traffic calming H&liif Verkehrsberuhigung Sif cal-umny /'kaelamni/ noun (pi. -ies) (formal) 1 [C] a false statement about a person that is made to damage their reputation ® Jg ,         I 2 [U] the act of

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Cal-va-dos /'kaelvadDs; NAmE .kaelva'doos/ noun [U] a French drink made by distilling apple juice (SB)

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calve /ka;v; NAmE kaev/ verb [V] (of a cow (541) to give birth to a calf XXX; calves pi of calf

Calvinist /'kaelvinist/ (also Calvinistic) adj. 1 con­nected with a Church that follows the teachings of the French Protestant, John Calvin jJU XX’^tth jffl X M.

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calyx /'keiliks/ noun (pi. calyxes or calyces /'keilisiiz/) (technical ft if) the ring of small green leaves (called sepals) that protect a flower before it opens ft W CAM /ksem/ abbr. computer aided manufacturing it Jf

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cam /kaem/ noun a, part on a wheel that sticks out and changes the circular movement of the wheel into up-and-down or backwards-and-forwards movement

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