Bottleneck Explained

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

• • 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