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UK
/bˈɒtəlnˌɛk/
]
[ US /ˈbɑtəɫˌnɛk/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑtəɫˌnɛk/ ]
NOUN
- a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
- the narrow part of a bottle near the top
VERB
-
become narrow, like a bottleneck
Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks -
slow down or impede by creating an obstruction
His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system
How To Use bottleneck In A Sentence
- This approach can also help identify where non-value-added steps exist in the care delivery process and where bottlenecks occur.
- The listener can be a bottleneck if it is single threaded, and if InterChange Server is not running on a high speed disk subsystem.
- That was helped, he said, by the fact that the local authorities responsible for the roads along the route were working on seven or eight projects involving key bottlenecks and pressure points.
- For example, one such bottleneck may occur during reinoculation of a chemostat, when tubes are changed.
- At the same time, Morrow said the surgical department was already "bottlenecked" at times in post-operation beds. JuneauEmpire.com
- Since I moved to Calne 28 years ago the narrow part of Curzon Street has been the main bottleneck for traffic passing through the town centre.
- The time-varying and incommutable character of the coefficient matrix of periodically time-varying linear systems are the bottleneck of the design for high precision direct integration methods.
- The bill calls for creation of an undersecretary for intermodalism and a national transportation plan that emphasizes "megaprojects" to address the country's biggest bottlenecks. News
- Roadworks are causing bottlenecks in the city centre.
- Eyewitnesses spoke of people having to fight their way to get near the image, while roads round the temple became bottlenecks of traffic.