relay
/ˈɹiːleɪ/ nom B2En français : relais, relai
- A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.
- A new set of anything.
- A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
- A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.
- A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. The most common events are 4×100 meter and 4×400 meter competitions.
- An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
Pluriel relays
Dans la bibliothèque
“When you have purchased the estate I desire, I want constant relays of horses at ten leagues apart along the northern and southern road.”
He was luxuriously stretched in a good English calash, with double springs; he was drawn by four good horses, at full gallop; he knew the relay to be at a distance of seven leagues.
This structure acts as a central relay station, processing visual and auditory data before sending it to the cerebral cortex for interpretation.
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