Look up bottleneck in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bottleneck is the narrowed portion (neck) of a bottle near its opening, which limits the rate...

In production and project management, a bottleneck is a process in a chain of processes, such that its limited capacity reduces the capacity of the whole...

A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes...

The Bottleneck is a location along the South-East Spur (also known as Abruzzi Spur), the most-used route to the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain...

genetic bottleneck in humans. However, some physical evidence disputes the association with the millennium-long cold event and genetic bottleneck, and some...

In software engineering, a bottleneck occurs when the capacity of an application or a computer system is limited by a single component, like the neck of...

different from a common meaning of a bottleneck. Also note, that this definition does not forbid a single link to be a bottleneck for multiple flows. A data rate...

In engineering, a bottleneck is a phenomenon by which the performance or capacity of an entire system is severely limited by a single component. The component...

(since they share a common bus). This is referred to as the von Neumann bottleneck, which often limits the performance of the corresponding system. The von...

The nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain several mammalian traits. In 1942, Gordon Lynn Walls described this concept which states...

Bottleneck Peak is a natural monolith located on the eastern side of Sids Mountain in the Utah San Rafael Swell wilderness area. It is situated 2.1 miles...

The Free State of Bottleneck (German: Freistaat Flaschenhals) was a short-lived quasi-state that existed from 10 January 1919 until 25 February 1923. It...

A traffic bottleneck is a localized disruption of vehicular traffic on a street, road, or highway. As opposed to a traffic jam, a bottleneck is a result...

trends, it was expected that memory latency would become an overwhelming bottleneck in computer performance. Another reason for the disparity is the enormous...

The interconnect bottleneck comprises limits on integrated circuit (IC) performance due to limits on the speed of connections between components, versus...

The Shifting Bottleneck Heuristic is a procedure intended to minimize the time it takes to do work, or specifically, the makespan in a job shop. The makespan...

minimum bottleneck spanning tree (MBST) in an undirected graph is a spanning tree in which the most expensive edge is as cheap as possible. A bottleneck edge...

or glass tube, such as the neck of a bottle, giving rise to the term bottleneck guitar to describe this type of playing. The strings are typically plucked...

problem was reported as an ice avalanche occurring at an area known as "the Bottleneck", which destroyed many of the climbers' rope lines. However, two climbers...

The Bottleneck traveling salesman problem (bottleneck TSP) is a problem in discrete or combinatorial optimization. The problem is to find the Hamiltonian...

The information bottleneck method is a technique in information theory introduced by Naftali Tishby, Fernando C. Pereira, and William Bialek. It is designed...

this buildup through a developmental process known as the mtDNA bottleneck. The bottleneck exploits stochastic processes in the cell to increase in the cell-to-cell...

Minimax (sometimes Minmax, MM or saddle point) is a decision rule used in artificial intelligence, decision theory, game theory, statistics, and philosophy...

Internet bottlenecks are places in telecommunication networks in which internet service providers (ISPs), or naturally occurring high use of the network...

Operation Bottleneck is a 1961 war film. During the Burma Campaign, a detachment of American paratroopers are aided by a group of local women in their...

Baby Bottleneck is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett and written by Warren Foster. The cartoon was released on March 16...

The marginal budgeting for bottlenecks tool (MBB) is an analytical costing and budgeting tool that helps countries develop their health plans by taking...

formed was immediately destroyed (a situation known as the "deuterium bottleneck"). Hence, the formation of helium-4 was delayed until the universe became...

In mathematics, the quadratic bottleneck assignment problem (QBAP) is one of the fundamental combinatorial optimization problems in the branch of optimization...

The .308 Winchester is a smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, police, military, and personal...