bucket brigade

== 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. Synonym: human chain (figurative, 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. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== === Further reading === “bucket brigade”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “bucket brigade”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present. bucket brigade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia