noun
bottleneck
a point of congestion that restricts the flow or progress of a process
In a sentence
Six example sentences with bottleneck, each labelled with its topic.
Profiling showed the bottleneck was not the database but a single thread compressing every image before upload.
Technology
One narrow bridge is the bottleneck for the whole island, and every ferry arrival backs traffic up for an hour.
Travel
The plant runs three shifts, yet the paint booth remains the bottleneck, holding finished frames for two full days.
Business
A single port became the bottleneck for the whole economy, with ships anchored offshore for three weeks waiting to unload.
Economics
The emergency department's bottleneck is not the doctors but the single scanner every serious case must pass through.
Medicine
Hiring became the bottleneck, since every candidate had to interview with the founder and she was booked six weeks out.
Startups
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