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cps

1 American  
  1. Computers. characters per second.

  2. cycles per second.


CPS 2 American  
cps 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. physics cycles per second

  2. computing characters per second

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CPS 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Crown Prosecution Service

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They found that deleting cps-6 caused paternal mitochondria to linger longer in the embryo.

From New York Times

Including the right to pick and choose a doctor they want instead of using the doctors that cps says to use. famulla5 France?

From Time

They either stay for a period of time before returning to cps or finish their schooling with AMI.”

From Chicago Tribune

The researchers identified a gene, called cps-6, that seemed to initiate the breakdown process within paternal mitochondria.

From New York Times