{
  "id": "chokepoint.bottleneck",
  "term": "chokepoint",
  "sense": "bottleneck",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "emergent-systems",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a window through which the parameters of many other windows are set",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sets.grouped",
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range"
    ],
    "interaction": "A grouped set of conditions is accessed and adjusted through an opening, enabling coordinated control over multiple parameters.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "centralized parameter access",
      "structured control interface",
      "cross-parameter coordination"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The TCP protocol's congestion control adjusts packet transmission rates through a single bottleneck router on the transatlantic cable TAT-14.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant lost cooling after tsunami flooded backup generators located in a vulnerable basement chokepoint.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Bering Strait funnels 80% of Arctic Ocean freshwater export into the Pacific, regulating global thermohaline circulation.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "chokepoint",
    "chokepoints"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed non-constitutive components 'window.range' and 'drift.aimless' which do not support the given definition. Added 'sets.grouped' and 'windows.opening' as essential for the concept of a controlli"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chokepoint.bottleneck"
}