Centimetre-gram-second

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  1. 1
    A system of units formerly used in physics (now replaced by the SI system), in which the basic units of length, mass and time were respectively centimetre, gram, and second. uncountable

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Etymology

From centimetre + gram + second. From the basis units of this version of the metric system.

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