Sekirov Dictionary

bottleneck

noun 4
verb 2
forms 3

noun4

The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
(figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
•
(figurative) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome due to the lessening of available throughput.
- It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
- The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.
A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.

verb2

•
To slow by causing a bottleneck.
- The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
•
To form a bottleneck.
- The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.

forms

bottlenecked · bottlenecking · bottlenecks

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