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bottleneck definition

bottle·neck (-nek′)

noun

  1. the neck of a bottle
  2. any place, as a narrow road, where traffic is slowed up or halted
  3. any point at which movement or progress is slowed up because much must be funneled through it a bottleneck in production

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, knife blade, etc.

transitive verb

to act as a bottleneck in

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bottleneck Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • eliminate: Sizing is the practice of eliminating bottlenecks by spending money to avoid having them in the first place.

Adjective modifier

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

Modifies a noun

  • specialty: So what should you do if you are stuck in a bottleneck specialty?

Noun used with modifier

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