How to pronounce “bucket brigade”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• (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.

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