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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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Also, this scheme can provide different compression ratios like JPEG does with the same codebooks.
Different size samples and different compression ratios can be applied.
Also, the universal screw, which has a 1:1 compression ratio, is said to have nearly as high outputs for HMW-HDPE as screws with negative compression ratios of 3:1 or 4:1.
 
 
 
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