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compression ratio
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compression ratio
n.
In an internal combustion engine, the ratio of the volume between the piston and cylinder head before and after a compression stroke.

compression ratio
n
(Engineering / Automotive Engineering) the ratio of the volume enclosed by the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine at the beginning of the compression stroke to the volume enclosed at the end of it


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They also recognized that screws with excessive compression ratios had their own problems, such as bailing-up at the feed throat of a strip-fed rubber extruder, or pushing unmelted pellets through a pelletized plastic extruder.
The encoder supports four programmable quantization tables, allowing on-demand configuration of compression ratios.
Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (ALDC) has been utilized to achieve typical compression ratios of 2.
 
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