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It's CGPM, from French "Conférence générale des poids et mesures"
by akyshnik 4y ago
It's CGPM, from French "Conférence générale des poids et mesures"
- dredmorbius 4y agoThis is also fairly common on international bodies' initialisms for which there are multiple official languages, to not favour any one of them. "ISO" is the International Organization for Standardization, in English, Organisation internationale de normalisation in French, and Международная организация по стандартизации in Russian, its three official languages, as one fairly well-known example.