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An Otto cycle (named after Nicolaus Otto) is an idealized thermodynamic cycle that describes the functioning of a typical spark ignition piston engine. It is the thermodynamic cycle most commonly found in automobile engines.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Otto cycle | is a | description of what happens to a gas as it is subjected to changes of pressure | 0.90 | text |
| Otto cycle | is a | same as the compression ratio V 1 / V 2 | 0.90 | text |
| Otto cycle | is a | energy developed per unit of time | 0.90 | text |
| energy | instance of | In the study of thermodynamic systems the extensive quantities | 0.80 | text |
| volume | instance of | In the study of thermodynamic systems the extensive quantities | 0.80 | text |
| or entropy | instance of | In the study of thermodynamic systems the extensive quantities | 0.80 | text |
| Otto cycle | related to history | The | 0.60 | section |
| Otto cycle | related to history | Alphonse Beau | 0.60 | section |
| Otto cycle | related to history | Rochas | 0.60 | section |
| Otto cycle | related to history | Before | 0.60 | section |
| Otto cycle | related to history | Italians | 0.60 | section |
| Otto cycle | related to history | Eugenio Barsanti | 0.60 | section |
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