bottleneck
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
bottleneck (plural bottlenecks)
- The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
- In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
- Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
- 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.
Translations[edit]
neck of a bottle
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narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
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any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
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Verb[edit]
bottleneck (third-person singular simple present bottlenecks, present participle bottlenecking, simple past and past participle bottlenecked)
- (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.
- The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
- (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.
- The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.
Translations[edit]
to slow by causing a bottleneck
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to form a bottleneck
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