Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

compression ratio

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.71 in modern English

Syllables: com-pres-sion ra-tio
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The ratio of the volume between the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine and the piston before and after the compression stroke.

noun

The ratio of the size of compressed data to the size of the original uncompressed data.

Inflected Forms

compression ratios (plural)

Questions

What does compression ratio mean?: The ratio of the volume between the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine and the piston before and after the compression stroke.

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