cgs system

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   system of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds

   Synonymscgs

   Broadermetric system

Questions about cgs system

What does cgs system mean?

cgs system means "system of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds".

What is another word for cgs system?

Close synonyms include cgs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cgs system a common word?

cgs system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.