The centimetre – gram – second system ( abbreviated CGS or cgs ) is a variant of the metric system of physical units based on centimetre as the unit of length, gram as a unit of mass, and second as a unit of time.

One variant ( known as O ' Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law ) favored among hackers is a takeoff on the second law of thermodynamics ( also known as entropy ):

In 2010 Mexico displayed a wagon variant with a second gun hatch to cover the rear of the vehicle.

A variant, the hook and lateral, where a forward pass is immediately passed backward to a second receiver to fool the defense, is used on occasion.

# A variant of this second theory is based on the fact that the tombstone states that Omasa gave birth to Musashi on 4 March 1584, and died of it.

The second major manuscript variant is either Mentonomon ( nominative case ) or Metuonidis ( genitive case ).

The 928 S4 variant debuted in the second half of 1986 as a 1987 model, an updated version of the 5. 0 L V8 for all markets producing 320 PS ( 235 kW / 316 hp ), sporting a new single-disc clutch in manual gearbox cars, larger torque converter in automatics and fairly significant styling updates which gave the car a cleaner, sleeker look.

A variant on this type of match is the WWE's Royal Rumble where two wrestlers enter the ring to start the match and other wrestlers follow in 90 second intervals ( previously 2 minutes ) until 30-40 wrestlers have entered the ring.

Wigner's friend is a variant on the experiment with two external observers: the first opens and inspects the box and then communicates his observations to a second observer.

John 1: 28 – The second corrector made unique textual variant Βηθαραβα.

Another variant some states use with the " continuous clock " rule allows coaches and game officials to choose to end a game at their own discretion any time during the second half, especially if a lopsided margin continues to increase or threatening weather strikes.

The second variant of the Trident is more sophisticated and can carry a heavier payload.

The second change was the addition of a new game piece called the " spite token " ( a variant in the prior edition ).

:" If the second variant takes place and the imperialists invade Cuba with the aim of occupying it, the dangers of their aggressive policy are so great that after such an invasion the Soviet Union must never allow circumstances in which the imperialists could carry out a nuclear first strike against it.

A second variant with a much larger distribution across many parts of the United States affects only, and results in differing pronunciations of the first vowel in the words rider and writer.

By the second millennium BC, two variant forms of the language were in use in Assyria and Babylonia ( known as Assyrian and Babylonian respectively ).

Darwin currently includes support for the 64-bit variant of the Intel x86 processors used in the Mac as well as the 32-bit ARM processors used in the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and the second and third generation Apple TV.

In the North American diet, α-Tocopherol, the most biologically active form of vitamin E, is the second most common form of vitamin E. This variant of vitamin E can be found most abundantly in wheat germ oil, sunflower, and safflower oils.

The second definition is for the 3-Dimensional variant of a spiral, for example a conical spring ( device ) can be described as a spiral whereas a cylindrical spring or strand of a DNA are examples of a helix.

The addition of the ' g ' and the accompanying shift in stress to the second syllable ( i. e. ' Mu-SÓRK-ski '), sometimes described as a Polish variant, was supported by Filaret Mussorgsky's descendants until his line was extinguished in the 20th century.

This version was released in the second series of NES e-Cards as well, and was also released in the Famicom Mini series, the Japanese variant of the Classic NES Series of games.

The first replacement was (" human radical ") luo 倮, already used as a graphic variant character for (" clothing radical ") luo 裸 " naked "; the second was luo 罗 " bird net ; gauze ".

In a variant version, the father is Silvius, who is identified as either the second son of Aeneas, previously mentioned in the Historia, or as the son of Ascanius.

Brakes howled and a horn blared furiously, but the man would have been hit if Phil hadn't called out to him a second before.

the second, the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks ( who later called themselves Communists ) in November of the same year.

This is called the second death.

He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.

His second wife was Alcia and they had a daughter called Lanassa, who married as the second wife of King Pyrrhus of Epirus.

A second time he was excommunicated ; but in 1146 he took the cross at the meeting of Vezelay called by Louis VII, and in August, 1147 embarked for the East in the Second Crusade.

This second ejected electron is called an Auger electron, after one of its discoverers, Pierre Victor Auger.

Saint Adelaide of Italy ( 931 / 932 – 16 December 999 ), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor.

The protein is organized with 6 transmembrane segments, then the C1 cytoplasmic domain, then another 6 membrane segments, and then a second cytoplasmic domain called C2.

The graphics are generated by a custom graphics chip called MARIA which is very different from other second and third generation consoles, and made it more difficult for game programmers to make the transition.

Telegames released a number of games in the second half of the 1990s, including a port of Raiden and a platformer called Fat Bobby in 1997, as well as an action sports game called Hyperdrome in 1999.

The second item was PC with a sound card and a software program called Banpaia, and the third item was a phone that could easily be used for cloning, such as the Oki 900.

In modern firearms terminology this is often called a " New York reload " after the practice of New York Police Department officers carrying second ( and even third ) guns as backup.

The second subset of base is also called an Arrhenius base.

After he recovered, he made a second effort and went back into the desert to a farther mountain by the Nile called Pispir, now Der el Memun, opposite Crocodilopolis.

These axons transmit signals in the form of electrochemical pulses called action potentials, which last less than a thousandth of a second and travel along the axon at speeds of 1 – 100 meters per second.

The second was the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English variety of this called Anglo-Norman.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, that lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that the Romans called Batavia and that is currently the Netherlands, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

BRP was also licensed to Oriflam in France to create a French language second edition of the Hawkmoon game called Hawkmoon, Nouvelle Edition.

Roughly contemporary with the construction of the new building was the career of a man sometimes called the " second founder " of the British Museum, the Italian librarian Anthony Panizzi.

Crompton later published an account of U-41s exploits in 1917, U-41: der zweite Baralong-Fall, which called the sinking of U-41 a " second Baralong case ".

For the second exam, called the Principles and Practices, Part 2, or the Professional Engineering exam, candidates may select a particular engineering discipline's content to be tested on ; there is currently not an option for BME with this, meaning that any biomedical engineers seeking a license must prepare to take this examination in another category ( which does not affect the actual license, since most jurisdictions do not recognize discipline specialties anyway ).