The mean effective pressure is a quantity relating to the operation of a reciprocating engine and is a valuable measure of an engine's capacity to do work that is independent of engine displacement. When quoted as an indicated mean effective pressure or imep (defined below), it may be thought of as the average pressure over a cycle in the combustion chamber of the engine.
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