bottleneck

Definizione monolingua

bottleneck

bottleneck (third-person singular simple present bottlenecks, present participle bottlenecking, simple past and past participle bottlenecked)

1. (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.

   The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.

2. (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.

   The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.

bottleneck (plural bottlenecks)

1. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
2. In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
3. Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.

   It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.

   The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.

Definizione dizionario bottleneck

	collo di bottiglia
	A condidtion, usually involving a hardware resource, that causes a computer to perform poorly.

	intasamento
	A narrow entrance or passageway.

collo

strozzatura

Altri significati:

narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay

(intransitive) To form a bottleneck.

The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.

In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.

any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome

(transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.

neck of a bottle