bucket brigade

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.

Broadly, Figuratively Any process in which something is passed along a chain.

Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.