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/ˈbätlˌnek/,
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bottlenecks, plural;
  1. The neck or mouth of a bottle

  2. A point of congestion or blockage, in particular

  3. A narrow section of road or a junction that impedes traffic flow
    • - narrow streets and a lack of parking space combine to make the town a bottleneck
  4. A situation that causes delay in a process or system
    • - lack of imports is making the bottlenecks in domestic output worse than usual
  5. A device shaped like the neck of a bottle, worn on a guitarist's finger to produce special sound effects

  6. The style of guitar playing that uses such a device

  1. constriction: a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
  2. slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"
  3. the narrow part of a bottle near the top
  4. become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"
  5. A bottleneck is a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is limited by a single or limited number of components or resources. The term bottleneck is taken from the 'assets are water' metaphor. ...
  6. The Bottleneck is a location along the South-East Spur, known also as Abruzzi Spur - the most used route to the top of K2, the second-highest mountain of the world in the Karakoram on the Pakistan/China border.
  7. (Bottlenecking) When a large amount of the work required on an audit is shifted closer toward the deadline instead of completed in a steady fashion throughout the time allotted toward the audit.
  8. (Bottlenecks (FFLP Lesson plan 6)) Parts of the song that prove difficult and slow the student down.
  9. (Bottlenecks) 70% of the European gene pool can be traced to 7 males who lived as hunter-gatherers before the end of the ice ages. 80% of the mitochondial DNA can be traced to 3 - 5 women living during the ice ages. [22]
  10. (Bottlenecks) A limiting factor. Term used in industry to refer to any factor that limits production.
  11. (bottlenecks) Drastic short-term reductions in population size caused by natural disasters, disease, or predators; can lead to random changes in the population's gene pool.
  12. A sharp reduction of a breeding population's size to a few individuals. The genetic consequences of a bottleneck, especially the loss of genetic variability, depend on both its magnitude and its duration.
  13. Any point at which production is slowed because demand placed on a resource is equal to or more than capacity. Bottlenecks identify machines that are critical to large sections of the production cycle.
  14. A crack with converging sides. Good for placing tapers or other passive protection.
  15. A passage or intersection in a Maze such that every solution to that Maze passes through it. Sealing off any bottleneck makes a Maze unsolvable. For perfect Mazes, the entire solution path is a bottleneck.
  16. The manufacturing process for which the available capacity is less than the required capacity.
  17. Any resource whose capacity is equal to, or less than the demand placed on it.
  18. both a style and a technique; mostly associated with blues guitar, it involves sliding a smooth metal, glass, or plastic bar or tube along the strings to create a "slurred" or "glissando" effect; the term originates from the days when blues musicians would use the broken neck of a bottle for the ...
  19. in the field of transport means obstacles to speed and/or capacity which make it impossible to guarantee the continuity of transport flows
  20. Delay caused by numerous website additions and updates being sent to the webmaster for placement on the web.
  21. Section of a road with a carrying capacity substantially below that of other sections of the same road.
  22. process step mid-stream that runs at a longer cycle time than processes on either side of it
  23. A condition that occurs when product demand exceeds production capacity.
  24. The point at which the production rate restricts the flow of materials.
  25. A dagga* pipe made from the broken neck of a bottle.