noun

definition

The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

definition

In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.

definition

(by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.

example

It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.

verb

definition

To slow by causing a bottleneck.

example

The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.

definition

To form a bottleneck.

example

The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.

Examples of bottleneck in a Sentence

The badge printers were a major bottleneck in the system.

The main bottleneck for the feasibility of whole genome association studies is the scarcity of dense polymorphic markers across the whole genome.

Opened 1827 to relieve the bottleneck that Brindley's original tunnel had become.

In order to overcome this serious bottleneck a need for reusable components arises in the system development.

She did begin playing guitar at age eight, and she showed an early ability to play bottleneck guitar, but she was never focused on making a living in music.

It drops down to Eamont Bridge which was a notorious bottleneck in the early 60s.

Councilor Donnell expressed concern at a potential bottleneck in the vicinity of the Fir Trees Hotel.

At higher energies, where there is no entropy bottleneck, this time scale separation disappears altogether.

The performance bottleneck may be worse than the average figures above suggest.

You don't want people frustrated because you've become a bottleneck for decision-making; and you don't want to pay people for twiddling their thumbs while you try to decide.

The only limit to actual bandwidth may be the bottleneck of the user's network card, which typically has a lower limit than the web hosting server.

Caches are designed to alleviate this bottleneck by making the data used most often by the CPU instantly available.

Data handling presents a severe bottleneck for today's science, without new strategies it might prevent future progress.

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