bucket brigade

noun

Definitions

  1. The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water…

    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…

    A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bucket brigade. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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