Bottleneck
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Bottleneck literally refers to the top narrow part of a bottle.
Figuratively, a bottleneck refers to a low-capacity part of a system that reduces the capacity of the whole system. For example, where a four-lane road is reduced to a two lane road the traffic of all four lanes has to "squeeze" through on two lanes, like squeezing through the neck of a bottle.
Other than the narrow part of a bottle a bottleneck may also refer to:
- Bottleneck (engineering)
- Bottleneck (logistics)
- Bottleneck (traffic)
- Bottleneck guitar, also known as slide guitar
- Liebig's law of the minimum
- Free State Bottleneck, a quasi-state that existed in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic
- Population bottleneck, an evolutionary event that drastically reduces a population
- Von Neumann bottleneck, a limit of throughput between a computer's processor and its memory
- Choke point, a concept in military strategy and geopolitics
- Bottleneck (K2), mountaineering feature near the top of K2 mountain.
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