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# caloric

«caloric» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **An old word for heat thought of as a kind of invisible fluid** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

An old word for heat thought of as a kind of invisible fluid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/caloric/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In this commentary it is used for the heat or fire that is hidden in water. Interpretation: The commentator uses old science to explain how fire, water and air balance each other. The tradition of Sefer Yetzirah sees the three mother letters as these three elements.

### examples

- 41) Our author means to say that the water has a great disposition to unite itself with the caloric, thus for instance is the fire latent in steam, but the air equipoises them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/caloric/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caloric» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/caloric/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.