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Meanings of bottleneck in English

Portuguese
constricção
Catalan
embotellament

A narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel.

constricção

The narrow portion near the opening of a bottle.

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Examples for "constriction"
Examples for "constriction"
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The words rising from my past caused a constriction in my chest.
Bones to Ashes
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Conclusions: Pupillary constriction depends on flicker frequency and duty cycle besides intensity.
Pubmed
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Therefore, kaempferol may be a potential therapeutic agent targeting asthmatic airway constriction.
Pubmed
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The motile organs are cirri and cilia, all inserted in the constriction.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole / Bulletin of the United States ...
5
B It divides into two halves by a constriction in the middle.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
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This chokepoint has long been at risk of pirate attacks launched from Somalia.
Reuters
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Pedestrians and cyclists inch forward, merging through the chokepoint, shuffling past the carnage.
The windup girl
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So is Beijing's getting in early to establish control over this potential new maritime chokepoint?
News.com.au
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A few hours east of Kabul, we stopped before reaching the chokepoint village of Sorubi.
Kill bin laden: a delta force commander's account of the hunt fo...
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However, Iran also knows how vulnerable the world is to what happens in this trade chokepoint.
News.com.au
Usage of bottleneck in English
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Carolin said production increases of Leaf in Japan will clear the bottleneck.
Reuters
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Solving that bottleneck has enormous implications for human health and the environment.
Wired
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But, despite the commercial interest, these advances will soon reach a bottleneck.
BBC
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Apart from the price slump, the sector is fighting a financing bottleneck.
Reuters
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In vaccine development, the identification of efficacious antigens forms the major bottleneck.
Pubmed
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Maintenance aside, a lack of storage remains a bottleneck in the south.
Reuters
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Consider developing one-way systems in stairwells and bottleneck locations in the school.
The Irish Times
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It remains a bottleneck in an economy still staggering under bad debts.
Reuters
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We investigated whether bottleneck sizes might also be influenced by non-random mechanisms.
Pubmed
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It is a traffic bottleneck with an alarming lack of parking facilities.
The Irish Times
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They slowed only for a moment at the bottleneck at the entrance.
The abduction
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The interpretation of genomic alterations remains a bottleneck for realizing precision medicine.
Pubmed
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The highway through town served as a bottleneck for those who fled.
Wizardborn
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The clearance narrowed towards my feet reaching a bottleneck over my knees.
Whispers Under Ground
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Poor retention of transplanted cells is the critical bottleneck of heart regeneration.
Pubmed
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The white Tahoe came through the bottleneck at twenty miles an hour.
Nothing to lose
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