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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- An abbreviation for
centimeter ,gram ,second . -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.
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