noun🔗ShareInitialism of Canadian Government Ship."The aging CGS Acadia is a historic vessel now preserved as a museum, showcasing Canada's maritime history. "governmentnauticalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA 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 centimeter, gram, and second."My grandfather, a retired physicist, still prefers to use cgs units when calculating magnetic fields, even though the SI system is now standard. "physicsunitsystemscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading