Bottleneck vs Impediment - What's the difference?
bottleneck | impediment |
The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
To slow by causing a bottleneck.
To form a bottleneck.
A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book
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, author=Mary Shelley
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(chiefly, in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta
As nouns the difference between bottleneck and impediment
is that bottleneck is the narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle while impediment is a hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.As a verb bottleneck
is to slow by causing a bottleneck.bottleneck
English
(wikipedia bottleneck)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Verb
(en verb)- The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
- The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.
impediment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus far into the bowels of the land / Have we marched on without impediment .
citation, passage=I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.}}
- Working in a noisy factory left him with a slight hearing impediment .
