Bottleneck

Neck or bottleneck (English for bottleneck) stands for:

• the upper narrow part of a bottle that serves as a spout
• Bottleneck (economy) , a metaphor in business for scarce capacity
• Bottleneck (logistics) , logistical term that describes a narrow or slow point that deteriorates the performance of the entire transport chain
• Bottleneck (chemistry) , term from chemistry, biotechnology and process engineering that describes the capacity-limiting point in an (industrial) process chain
• Von Neumann bottleneck , term from computer science; see Von-Neumann-Architektur # Von-Neumann-Bottleneck
• Genetic bottleneck , term from population genetics
• the reaction step that determines the rate in chemistry and describes the overall reaction kinetics (e.g. phosphofructokinase 1 )
• Bottleneck , an accessory for plucked instruments like the guitar
• Bottleneck Free State , unoccupied area in the Rhineland during the Allied occupation of the Rhineland
• a bottleneck in a pipe in fluid physics
• Bottleneck effect , the difficulty in directing the cognitive receptive capacity to several central processes within human communication at the same time
• Bottleneck (also bottle neck park), part of the park at Gleisdreieck in Berlin; see Park am Gleisdreieck # Bottle Neck Park

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Wiktionary: Bottleneck  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• bottleneck
• Eye of a needle (disambiguation)

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