Dynamic compression ratio is the real compression ratio that the engine experiences at any given time.
When you cruise down the road at part throttle, the engine is inhaling bugger all air. If each cylinder is 500cc and the combustion chamber is 50cc then the static compression ratio is 11:1. But at part throttle, the engine isn't going to be inhaling all 500-550cc (per cylinder). Lets say it inhales 100cc (per cylinder). So if it's actually got 100cc of air inside the cylinder and the combustion chamber measures 50cc, the part throttle dynamic compression ratio is more like 2:1.
This shows why an engine that is throttle will easily tolerate heaps of ignition advance.
It's also for this reason that you can't compression lock a petrol engine. Well, not without filling it with more liquid than the combustion chamber can accommodate.
Obviously the force fed side is similar, but on boost the engine doesn't inhale more volume into the cylinder (that's fixed by the cylinder and the combustion chamber's volume), but denser air. So rather than measuring compression ratio as a volume ratio, compression pressure is (probably) more appropriate.
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