Bottleneck in a sentence as a noun

Road signs commonly ask you to use both lanes up to the point of the bottleneck.

If math is your bottleneck then don't use Dart, if you know that math is your bottleneck then you shouldn't have to be told this!

You realize the bottleneck isn't your connection at that point -- it's everyone else's.

Worse, the pull request only gets sent to maintainer, which makes the maintainer the review bottleneck.

Just understand that transistor size and pokey RAM are the bottlenecks, not that nasty old x86 instruction set.

Top of the list is scalability and performance improvement since speed has been a bottleneck.

That's why, if you want to see more of them, the bottleneck isn't finding the talent: It's the funding, which generally comes from taxpayers.

Bottleneck in a sentence as a verb

A singular queue is easy to handle, but it also imposes a single point of failure and is a performance bottleneck.

Unlike web development, performance is still a huge bottleneck in this field; people still mill about for 3 weeks waiting for their job to finish just like it was the 1970s.

Since the gcc maintainer was the bottleneck, we simply declared our tree a new fork with the support and participation of other major developers.

"Once you have that process working, it's the same as optimizing software: you find the current bottleneck, fix it, find the next, etc. The Time article mentions two -- the lack of DB caching and the bad ID generator.

I guess it depends on the type of software you're working on, but input speed has never been close to being the bottleneck with coding for me...Most of the time I'm trying to figure out what to do or how to implement an algorithm.

\nI'm sure the siRNA they use is wonderful, with great knockdown and durability, but in this space it is the delivery vehicle forming the bottleneck.\nDisclaimers aside, Tekmira initiated a PhI trial of Ebola-TKM this past January and it will be interesting to see how the toxicity plays out.

Bottleneck definitions

noun

a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

See also: constriction chokepoint

noun

the narrow part of a bottle near the top

verb

slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"

verb

become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"