bucket brigade
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English
Noun
bucket brigade (plural bucket brigades)
- The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
- (by extension) Any process in which something is passed along a chain.
- (electronics) A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.
Translations
line of people who pass buckets of water
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any process in which something is passed along a chain
electronics: discrete-time analogue delay line
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Further reading
- “bucket brigade”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “bucket brigade”, in Collins English Dictionary.