Engine knocking

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What Wikipedia says

In spark-ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also called knock, detonation, spark knock, or pinging) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel mixture in the cylinder results from a source other than the flame front ignited by the spark plug, in other words, when one or more pockets of air/fuel mixture explode outside the envelope of the normal combustion front.

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