cylinder
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Because their rivals believe they have found a way of exploiting the rule restricting the compression ratio - a measurement of the cylinder displacement between the two extremes of the piston stroke - to 16:1.
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The compression ratio is a measurement of the cylinder displacement between the two extremes of the piston stroke.
From BBC
It’s firing on all cylinders with same-store sales growth vastly better than at old rival Target and most other competitors.
Car and Driver magazine said of the rare six-cylinder, “it takes on the characteristic Ferrari sounds despite having only half the number of cylinders.”
In the home, a rich family might have one of the new phonographs that played music stored on wax cylinders, but most families were still making their own music, using sheet music or songbooks.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
