Usually means: Unit of energy in food.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cal, cal: Merriam-Webster
  2. CAL, CAL, Cal, Cal, cal, cal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cal, Cal, cal, cal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. CAL, cal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cal, cal: Wordnik
  6. CAL, cal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Cal, cal: Wiktionary
  8. cal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Cal, cal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Cal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cal, cal: Dictionary.com
  12. CAL (programming language), CAL, Cal (Unix), Cal (album), Cal (disambiguation), Cal (footballer), Cal (given name), Cal (novel), Cal (short story), Cal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Cal: Rhymezone
  16. Cal, cal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. CAL, Cal: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. cal: FreeDictionary.org
  19. Cal, Cal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. cal: Infoplease Dictionary
  21. cal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cal-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAL: Investopedia

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. cal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cal (Calorie), Cal: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. -cal, cal: Medical dictionary
  7. Cal (Calorie), Cal: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. CAL: Acronym Finder
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Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. CAL: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  3. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  4. cal: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cal, Cal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. C.A.L, The Cal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cal: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cal)

▸ noun:  (mining, archaic, UK, dialect, Cornwall) wolfram, an ore of tungsten.
▸ noun:  calcium hydroxide, slaked lime
▸ noun:  A short form of the male given names Caleb, Calum or Calvin.
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
▸ noun:  (informal) University of California, Berkeley
▸ noun:  (informal, uncommon) California.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (informal) Clipping of calorie. [(nutrition) Kilogram calorie or large calorie. A unit of energy 1000 times larger than the gram calorie. It is equivalent to the gram kilocalorie, about 4.2 kilojoules.]
▸ noun:  (military, informal) Clipping of caliber. [Diameter of the bore of a firearm, typically measured between opposite lands.]
▸ noun:  (informal) Clipping of calendar. [Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.]
▸ noun:  Clipping of calibration. [The act of calibrating something.]

Similar:
wolframium, wolfram, tungsten, tungstenum, eka-wolfram, tungsten carbide, calcium tungstate, calin, calctuff, scheelite, more...

Opposite:
noisy, turbulent, agitated, chaotic, loud

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white, red, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, orange, more...

Phrases:
Cal Tech, Cal Poly, cal ripken, cal arts, medi cal, more...

Adjectives:
medi, old, low, total, politi, southern, abbreviated, more, fat, criti, compare

Colors:
    sky blue,     mint green,     lavender,     soft pink,     baby blue, more...



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Similar:
wolframium, wolfram, tungsten, tungstenum, eka-wolfram, tungsten carbide, calcium tungstate, calin, calctuff, scheelite, more...

Opposite:
noisy, turbulent, agitated, chaotic, loud

Types:
white, red, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, orange, more...

Phrases:
Cal Tech, Cal Poly, cal ripken, cal arts, medi cal, cal berkeley, low cal, cal osha, lo cal, no cal, os cal, cal lac, Cal State, g cal, kg cal, nor cal, nu cal, os cal 500, oyst cal 500, ripken, cal, more...

Adjectives:
medi, old, low, total, politi, southern, abbreviated, more, fat, criti, compare

Colors:
    sky blue,     mint green,     lavender,     soft pink,     baby blue, more...



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