Bottleneck may refer to:
- the narrowed portion (neck) of a bottle
Science and technology
- Bottleneck (engineering), where the performance of an entire system is limited by a single component
- Bottleneck (network), in a communication network
- Bottleneck (production), where one process reduces capacity of the whole chain
- Bottleneck (software), in software engineering
- Interconnect bottleneck, limits on integrated circuit performance
- Internet bottleneck, slowing the performance on the Internet at a particular point
- Bottleneck, a design element of some firearms cartridge cases
Places
- Bottleneck (K2), a mountain feature
- Free State of Bottleneck, a quasi-state in Germany 1919–1923
Other uses
- Choke point, or bottleneck, in miiltary strategy, a feature that reduces passability of terrain
- Population bottleneck, an evolutionary event that drastically reduces a population
- Traffic bottleneck, a local disruption in a transportation network
See also
- All pages with titles containing Bottleneck
- Liebig's law of the minimum, in agricultural science
- Nocturnal bottleneck, hypothesis to explain several mammal traits
- Von Neumann architecture#von Neumann bottleneck
- Reverse salient, a restricting component of a technological system
- Slide guitar, that can be played with the neck of a bottle
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