Estimated Calorie Requirements. Estimated amounts of calories needed to maintain energy balance for various gender and age groups at three different levels of physical activity. The estimates are rounded to the nearest 200 calories and were determined using the Institute of Medicine equation.
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1. the act, manner, or result of producing the sounds of speech, including articulation, stress, and intonation. 2. a way of pronouncing a word, syllable, etc., that is accepted or considered correct. 3. the conventional patterns of treatment of the sounds of a language: the pronunciation of French.4. a phonetic transcription of a given word, sound, etc.[1400â50; late Middle English pronunciacion prÅnÅ«ntiÄtiÅ delivery (of a speech) = prÅnÅ«ntiÄ(re) to announce, utter (see pronounce) + -tiÅ -tion ].. the conventional patterns of treatment of the sounds of a language: the pronunciation of French. 4. a phonetic transcription of a given word, sound, etc. [1400â50; late Middle English pronunciacion prÅnÅ«ntiÄtiÅ delivery (of a speech) = prÅnÅ«ntiÄ(re) to announce, utter (see pronounce) + -tiÅ -tion ].