Usually means: Restriction limiting system or process.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. bottleneck: Merriam-Webster
  2. bottleneck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bottleneck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bottleneck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bottleneck: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bottleneck, bottleneck: Wordnik
  7. bottleneck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bottleneck: Wiktionary
  9. bottleneck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bottleneck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bottleneck: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bottleneck: Dictionary.com
  13. bottleneck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Bottleneck (K2), Bottleneck (engineering), Bottleneck (logistics), Bottleneck (network), Bottleneck (production), Bottleneck (project management), Bottleneck (software), Bottleneck (traffic), Bottleneck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. bottleneck: Rhymezone
  16. bottleneck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bottleneck: FreeDictionary.org
  18. bottleneck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. bottleneck: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. bottleneck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bottleneck: Investopedia
  3. Bottleneck (computer science), The bottleneck, bottleneck: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Bottleneck (computer science), The bottleneck, bottleneck: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bottleneck: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bottleneck: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See bottlenecked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
noun:  (music) A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
noun:  (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
noun:  (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
verb:  (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.

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