# centimetre-gram-second

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A system of units formerly used in physics (now replaced by the SI system), in which the basic units of length, mass and time were respectively centimetre, gram, and second.

## Etymology
From centimetre + gram + second. From the basis units of this version of the metric system.

## Source
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