cascade
see also: Cascade
Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /kæsˈkeɪd/
Noun

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
Translations Translations Verb

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.
Translations Translations
  • German: hintereinanderschalten
  • Portuguese: cascatear

Cascade
Proper noun
  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.



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