Bottleneck Definition

bŏtl-nĕk
bottlenecks
noun
bottlenecks
The neck of a bottle.
Webster's New World
Any place, as a narrow road, where traffic is slowed up or halted.
Webster's New World
A point or an area of traffic congestion.
American Heritage
A hindrance to progress or production.
American Heritage
Any point at which movement or progress is slowed up because much must be funneled through it.
A bottleneck in production.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
bottlenecks
To slow down or impede by creating an obstruction.
American Heritage
To act as a bottleneck in.
Webster's New World
adjective
Designating or of a style of playing blues guitar in which notes and chords are formed by stopping a string or strings with a broken-off glass bottleneck, a knife blade, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bottleneck

Noun

Singular:
bottleneck
Plural:
bottlenecks

Origin of Bottleneck

Bottleneck Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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Words Starting With

BBOBOT

Words Ending With

KCKECK

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