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Plural of bottleneck

regular plural

The plural of bottleneck is bottlenecks.

Forms of bottleneck

Singularbottleneck
Pluralbottlenecks
Countablecountable

Bottlenecks in a sentence

  • To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Federal Railways' progress”, in Modern Railways, page 416. From the entry unceasing
  • Infodemiology can also be used to map information distribution and use patterns which can reveal bottlenecks in information flow.2014, Tom Kwanya, Christine Stilwell, Peter Underwood -, Library 3.0: Intelligent Libraries and Apomediation, page 131. From the entry infodemiology
  • The headquarters router and port connection can become bottlenecks.2002, Regis J. (Bud) Bates, “Frame Relay”, in Broadband Telecommunications Handbook (McGraw-Hill Telecommunications), 2nd edition, New…. From the entry tandem

Meaning of bottleneck

  1. noun The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
  2. noun A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
  3. noun In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.

Full definition of bottleneck

Questions about the plural of bottleneck

What is the plural of bottleneck?
The plural of bottleneck is bottlenecks.
Is bottleneck countable?
Bottleneck is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bottleneck (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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