dyne

dyne
/duyn/, n. Physics.
the standard centimeter-gram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second on a mass of one gram. Abbr.: dyn
[1835-45; < F < Gk dýnamis force, power]

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▪ unit of measurement
      unit of force in the centimetre-gram-second system of physical units, equal to the force that would give a free mass of one gram an acceleration of one centimetre per second per second. One dyne equals 0.00001 newton.

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