collo di bottiglia

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Italian

Noun

collo di bottiglia m (plural colli di bottiglia)

  1. bottleneck (narrow portion forming the pouring spout)
  2. (figurative, by extension) bottleneck (slow part of a process)
    collo di bottiglia di Von NeumannVon Neumann bottleneck
    • 2017, Peter L. King, Lean thinking per le aziende di processo [Lean thinking for processing companies]‎, page 138:
      L'identificazione e la gestione dei colli di bottiglia nell'industria di transformazione può essere difficile, perché il collo di bottiglia si può trovare in una fase del processor diversa per un materiale rispetto a un altro []
      The identification and management of bottlenecks in transforming industries can be difficult, because the bottleneck can be found in a different phase of the processor for a material with respect to another