Bore (engine)

A cylinder bore or a short hole is defined as the inner diameter of a cylinder, specifically the cylinder of a piston engine. Slightly less than the cylinder bore, the piston diameter; as pistons in internal combustion engines are not exactly circular in cross section, the piston diameter is also still subject to the measurement direction.

In the German standard DIN 1940 " Internal Combustion Engines" is recommended for the cylinder bore the symbols D and the unit mm.

The bore of the piston stroke s and the number of cylinders to determine the size of an engine.

The ratio of piston stroke and cylinder bore is - also according to DIN 1940 - the stroke ratio.

The term square Huber ( from the English square engine) is used mainly in popular science publications for engines with s / D = 1.

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