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

• IPA: /kæsˈkeɪd/

cascade (plural cascades)

1. A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
   • 1785, William Cowper, The Garden:

     Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade.

   • 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spirit of Poetry:

     The silver brook […] pours the white cascade.

2. (figuratively) 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

3. A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.

   Coordinate term: daisy chain

4. (juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
5. (Internet) 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).
6. A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
7. (chemistry) A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next

• French: cascade, chute d'eau
• German: Wasserfall, Kaskade
• Italian: cascata
• Portuguese: cascata, cachoeira, salto, queda d'água
• Russian: водопа́д
• Spanish: cascada

• German: Kaskade
• Portuguese: cascata
• Russian: каска́д

cascade (cascades, present participle cascading; simple past and past participle cascaded)

1. (intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
2. (transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
3. (intransitive) To occur as a causal sequence.
   • 2003, Adam Freeman, Allen Jones, Programming .NET Security:

     Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy.

4. (archaic, slang) To vomit.

• German: herabstürzen
• Portuguese: cascatear

• German: hintereinanderschalten
• Portuguese: cascatear

1. An administrative district in Seychelles
2. A small city/county seat in Valley County, Idaho.
3. A city in Iowa.
4. A town in Montana.
5. A town in Wisconsin.
6. A town/and/settlement in Jamaica.
7. A town in Western Australia.