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akyshnik | 3 years ago

It's CGPM, from French "Conférence générale des poids et mesures"

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dredmorbius|3 years ago

This 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.