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Bottleneck vs Saturation - What's the difference?

bottleneck | saturation |

As nouns the difference between bottleneck and saturation

is that bottleneck is the narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle while saturation is the act of saturating or the process of being saturated.

As a verb bottleneck

is to slow by causing a bottleneck.

bottleneck

English

(wikipedia bottleneck)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • 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)
  • To slow by causing a bottleneck.
    • The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
  • To form a bottleneck.
    • The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.

    saturation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia saturation) (en-noun)
  • the act of saturating or the process of being saturated
  • (physics) the condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized
  • (chemistry) the state of a saturated solution
  • (chemistry) the state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds
  • (meteorology) the state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity
  • (art) the intensity or vividness of a colour
  • intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it
  • the flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold
  • (music) an effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music
  • The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
  • The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.
    • Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation .

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