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bucket brigade en · NOUN

Meanings

1. 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.
2. (broadly, figuratively) Any process in which something is passed along a chain.
3. A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.

Forms

Relateds

fire brigade · douser

Synonyms

human chain

Translations (3)

de Eimerkettenspeicher (electronics: discrete-time analogue delay line) · de Eimerkette (line of people who pass buckets of water) · de Löschkette (line of people who pass buckets of water)

wikidata: Q1304195 · wikidata: Q17097888