"bucket brigade" meaning in All languages combined

See bucket brigade on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: bucket brigades [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bucket brigade (plural bucket brigades)
  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. Synonyms: human chain Related terms: fire brigade, douser Translations (line of people who pass buckets of water): Eimerkette [feminine] (German), Löschkette [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-bucket_brigade-en-noun-en:firefighting_team_with_buckets Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations, Firefighting Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 29 39 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 42 18 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 32 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 32 32 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 34 30 36 Disambiguation of Firefighting: 85 6 10 Disambiguation of 'line of people who pass buckets of water': 81 5 14
  2. (figurative, by extension) Any process in which something is passed along a chain. Wikidata QID: Q1304195 Tags: broadly, figuratively
    Sense id: en-bucket_brigade-en-noun-en:Q1304195 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 29 39 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 42 18 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 32 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 32 32 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 34 30 36
  3. (electronics) A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle. Wikidata QID: Q17097888 Translations (electronics: discrete-time analogue delay line): Eimerkettenspeicher [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-bucket_brigade-en-noun-en:Q17097888 Categories (other): Electronics, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 29 39 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 42 18 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 32 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 32 32 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 34 30 36 Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'electronics: discrete-time analogue delay line': 7 2 91

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