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bottleneck

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In a communication network , sometimes a max-min fairness of the network is desired, usually opposed to the basic first-come first-served policy. With max-min fairness, data flow between any two nodes is maximized, but only at the cost of more or equally ...

Usage examples of bottleneck.

A fresh battery could drive the little bulb day and night for four days and, if necessary, could be sent up, now that they had widened the bottleneck and double dihedron, to be recharged from the pedal-driven magneto that kept their telephone battery fresh.

Passing Sunset and Vine, traffic got bottlenecked: shitloads of cars turning north on Gower and Beachwood.

Light Horse regiments were called upon to take a position known as The Nek, a ridge about fifty yards wide at the Anzac front line and thirty yards or so at the Turkish trenches, so that any bayonet charge from our lines would have the effect of forcing troops into a bottleneck, concentrating their numbers for the Turkish machine guns and rifles.

In windbreaker and knickers he sticks fast to his bollard, he grinds, before attacking the bottle, goes on grinding the same song as soon as the bottleneck is released, and keeps on blunting his teeth.

Drunkenness to me was dragging Gatti Jinni up to his sad garret once a month, or watching Karsh wearily facing down some grinning bargeman with a meat-knife in one hand and a broken bottleneck in the other, with two farmers bleeding and vomiting on the floor.

It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles, each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future.

In a room lit by a candle stuck in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts from the hair of a scrofulous child.

Unnerving, because Hel was now totally dependent on the cable, after ninety minutes of negotiating the narrow, twisting shaft with its bottlenecks, narrow ledges, tricky dihedrons, and tight passages down which he had to ease himself gingerly, never surrendering to gravity because the cable was slack to give him maneuvering freedom.

Street barricades were already going up here and there, causing unfortunate bottlenecks of desperate people.

The overflow shunts will direct the water straight down through the Bottleneck into the deepest storm drains and the Astor Tunnels, which in turn drain into the West Side Laterals and finally into the Hudson.

Something rippled out of the bottleneck, a force that shocked both of them.

Grant pointed the bottleneck of the harp in her direction and plucked frantically at the double-banked strings.

He stepped into Dome X, sweeping the bottleneck of the harp in short left-to-right arcs.

Pointing the bottleneck of the instrument at the rolling molecular destabilizer, he strummed the strings fast and hard.

If and when the Bottleneck does close completely, either as a result of nebular drift or through berserker actionwell, everyone on Alpine is going to be in a state of siege at best.