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a metric system of units based on the centimetre, gram, and second. For scientific and technical purposes these units have been replaced by SI units

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Words nearby cgs units

CGI, cgm., cGMP, cgs, cgs system, cgs units, CGT, ch, cha, chabazite, Chablis

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How to use cgs units in a sentence

As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
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Yawer says as a matter of policy, the female peshmerga unit is treated the same as the other male units.
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There is no doubt Shadman used his contacts to start a very lucrative business providing services to Special Forces units.
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Russian ground forces, including infantry and armor units, are being permanently stationed in key areas.
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But Swift is only in her second week of 1989 and already moved a million units, according to Billboard.
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An extra 50,000 men to feed war-trained units already in the field is another, and very different, and very much better thing.
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The techs had already started a strip-down, their tools and units across the floor adding to the general confusion.
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But damn it, man, those units cost something like eighty thousand dollars!
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Tactical use, by the enemy, of the more resilient units of the Landsturm for negotiating Belgian dykes.
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The best throw, called the Venus, only happened when each of the upturned surfaces presented different units.
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