OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22841

bottleneck

Meanings (ES + gloss)
boquerón • cuello • cuello de botella • embotellamiento • embudo • estrangulamiento • garganta • gollete
In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
"Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such w…
At one time, Reading was regarded as a notorious bottleneck in the rail network, almost incapable of managing the number of services that needed to pass through the station each da…
atasco • cuello de botella
The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.
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