cascade

noun

/kæsˈkeɪd/

Etymology

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

derived from *ḱh₂d-✻
derived from cadō
derived from *cāsicāre✻
derived from cascata
derived from cascade

Definitions

1
A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
- Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade.
- The silver brook […] pours the white cascade.
2
A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
- 2001, Richard Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events
A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being…
A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.
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1. A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by…
  A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
2. 5
  A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one…
  A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).
  - Don't you hate cascades? I hate cascades!
  - Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.
  - Anyway. I didn't mean to say that everyone who posts URLs is bad and wrong and should lose their breathing privileges. Just that I was getting weary of look-at-this-link posts, sort of like some people get sick of cascades.
3. 6
  A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used…
  A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
  - A cascade can be added to one or both sides of the band to work well with longer hair.
4. A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next
5. To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
6. 9
  To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
  - No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.
7. 10
  To occur as a causal sequence.
  - Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy.
8. 11
  To pass (something) down through a chain or system in a flow or series of movements.
  - Relief arrived at Cardiff Canton depot on 1 September in the shape of the first of 12 Class 170 units cascaded from Greater Anglia.
9. 12
  To vomit.
  - Then he began to choke. The next thing I knew, he cascaded onto my new carpet.
10. A number of places in the United States
  A number of places in the United States:
11. A settlement in Hanover parish, Jamaica.
12. An administrative district on Mahé, Seychelles.
13. A locality near Burnt Pine, Norfolk Island.
14. A locality in the Bellingen council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
15. A town in the Shire of Esperance, Western Australia.

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Derived

availability cascade, cascadable, Cascade County, cascade everlasting, cascade method, cascade particle, Cascadia, cascadic, cascode, cytokine cascade, trophic cascade, reverse cascade, French cascade, path cascade, photocascade, preference cascade, quantum cascade laser, subcascade

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA