Blow-by


leakage of the air-fuel mixture or of combustion gases between a piston and the cylinder wall into the crankcase of an automobile.
a device, fitted to a crankcase, for conducting such gases back to the cylinders for combustion.
noun
the leakage of gas past the piston of an engine at maximum pressure

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