Bottleneck

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A narrow or obstructed section, as of a highway or a pipeline.
  • noun. A point or an area of traffic congestion.
  • noun. A hindrance to progress or production.
  • noun. The narrow part of a bottle near the top.
  • noun. A style of guitar playing in which an object, such as a piece of glass or metal, is passed across the strings to achieve a gliding sound.
  • noun. An abrupt and severe reduction in the number of individuals during the history of a species of a population, often resulting in the loss of diversity from the gene pool.
  • transitive verb. To slow down or impede by creating an obstruction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. same as obstruct.
  • a location or situation in which otherwise rapid progress is impeded.
  • a point at which road traffic slows due to congestion or narrowing of the roadway.
  • an impasse.
  • a narrowing.
  • intransitive verb. to become narrower as one approaches a point; -- said of roads.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
  • noun. In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
  • noun. Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
  • verb. To slow by causing a bottleneck.
  • verb. To form a bottleneck.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. slow down or impede by creating an obstruction
  • noun. the narrow part of a bottle near the top
  • verb. become narrow, like a bottleneck
  • noun. a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
  • Word Usage
    "Transferring large files over the network to another computer or NAS would be noticeably slower but accessing the Internet will still seem “fast” as the bottleneck is the Internet connection, not this 2nd AP link."
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    obstruct  
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