bucket brigade

Noun

 * 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)  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.

Translations

 * German: Eimerkette, Löschkette


 * German: Eimerkettenspeicher