cgs
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8.6
- noun
- /siː dʒiː ɛs/
- Archaic
- - CGS?
Examples
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The salvage company is la CGS of Le Havre, a highly reputable firm.
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And so as far as the rise time of this node is concerned, I can look at this circuit ground through CGS, through RL through VS back to ground.
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CGS has recently been used for characterizing thin structures and films as well.
Academic text (2004) -
Also, firms that spent three years did better than those that spent two years in the implementation effort in terms of CGS expenses over sales (p < .05).
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Paper presented at the 2006 CGS/NSF Workshop: Graduate Students in 2020: New Perspectives, Arlington, VA.
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As compared to the firms that adopted support modules only, those firms that adopted primary supply chain modules only, on average, deteriorated their differential performance as measured by the ratio of CGS over sales (p < 0.10).
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Corso and his partners Mike Gallicchio and Brian Swanson form The CGS Group, a local nightlife and entertainment company that owns and manages multiple venues, including The Long Street District, Park Street Patio, Park Street Cantina, and The Social.
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The cgs system was commonly used in laboratories before the SI system became the standard.
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In physics classes, students often learn about the cgs system to understand measurements in detail.
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Researchers applied principles from the cgs system to simplify their calculations in experiments.
Synonyms
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6.5
A system of measurement using centimeters, grams, and seconds for science
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
cgs = c + g + s
An initialism formed from the letters C, G, and S; the letters are not English morphemes and the meaning is not derivable without knowledge of the expansion (centimeter–gram–second).
Etymology
Cgs comes from the first letters of centimeter, gram, and second, meaning 'centimeters, grams, and seconds'. It names a measurement system made from those three units and was often used in older science, which is why you find it in older physics books.