![](/template/termwiki/images/likesmall.jpg)
Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Compression ratio
Compression ratio
A measurement of how tightly the air-fuel mixture is compressed or squeezed within the cylinder by the piston. This can be determined by taking the total volume of the cylinder when the piston is at its lowest point (Bottom Dead Center, or BDC) and dividing it by the volume when the piston is at its highest point (Top Dead Center, or TDC). In general, higher compression ratios yield greater power.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Automotive
- Category: Automobile
- Company: Toyota
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Language Category: General language
Gomera whistle
Silbo on the Canary Islands, Spain, and Tecp á n island is one of the best-studied whistled languages. Number of distinctive sounds or phonemes in ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Browers Terms By Category
- Investment banking(1768)
- Personal banking(1136)
- General banking(390)
- Mergers & acquisitions(316)
- Mortgage(171)
- Initial public offering(137)
Banking(4013) Terms
- Material physics(1710)
- Metallurgy(891)
- Corrosion engineering(646)
- Magnetics(82)
- Impact testing(1)
Materials science(3330) Terms
- Hats & caps(21)
- Scarves(8)
- Gloves & mittens(8)
- Hair accessories(6)
Fashion accessories(43) Terms
- Advertising(244)
- Event(2)
Marketing(246) Terms
- General seafood(50)
- Shellfish(1)