Dictionary Definition
cascade
Noun
1 a small waterfall or series of small
waterfalls
2 a succession of stages or operations or
processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of
genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade
of processes"
3 a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc)
likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a
sudden cascade of sparks" [syn: shower]
Verb
1 rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
[syn: cascade
down]
2 arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so
that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /kæsˈkeɪd/
- Rhymes with: -eɪd
Noun
- A waterfall or
series of small waterfalls.
- Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. -Cawper
- A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if
falling like a cascade.
- The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events — Richard M. Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press, 2001
- A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next; See also daisy chain
Translations
waterfall
- Bosnian: vodopad
- Croatian: vodopad, kaskada
- Danish: kaskade
- Dutch: waterval
- Finnish: köngäs, kaskadi
- German: Wasserfall, Kaskade
- Hungarian: vízesés
- Malayalam: വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം
sequence of events
- Bosnian: kaskada
- Croatian: kaskada
- Danish: kaskade
- Finnish: tapahtumasarja
- German: Kaskade
- Malayalam: സംഭവപരമ്പര
series of electric components
- Finnish: sarja
French
Pronunciation
- /kaskad/
Noun
fr-noun f- Cascade i waterfall
- Cascade i series of event
- A stunt performed for cinematic imitation or entertainment.
Verb
cascadeExtensive Definition
A cascade is a waterfall or a series of
waterfalls.
Cascade may also refer to:
Places
North America
- Cascade Range, a mountain range on the west coast of North America
- Cascade Volcanoes, a grouping of volcanoes on the west coast of North America
Canada
- Cascade Mountain (Alberta), a mountain located in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park
- Cascade, British Columbia, aka Cascade Falls, a ghost town
United States
* Cascade, Colorado, an unincorporated town in El Paso County-
- Cascade-Chipita Park, Colorado, a census-designated place
- Cascade, Idaho, a city in Valley County
- Cascade, Iowa, a city in Dubuque County and Jones County
- Cascade, Montana, a town in Cascade County
- Cascade, New Hampshire, a village within the town of Gorham and the city of Berlin
- Cascade, Seattle, Washington, a small neighborhood abutting downtown Seattle
- Cascade, Wisconsin, a village in Sheboygan County
- Cascade-Fairwood, Washington, a census-designated place in King County
- Cascade Locks, Oregon, a city in Hood River County
- Cascade Township, Michigan, a charter township of Kent County
- Cascade Township, Minnesota, in Olmsted County
- Cascade Township, Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County
- Cascade Valley, Washington, a census-designated place in Grant County
- Cascade Highway (Washington), a portion of U.S. Route 2 through the northern Cascades in Washington
- Cascade Highway (Oregon), a portion of Oregon Route 213 running from Silverton to Stayton in Oregon
- Cascade Lakes, a collection of lakes in Oregon
- Cascade Mountain (New York), a mountain in Essex County of New York
- Cascade Park, a Lorain County Metropark in Elyria, Ohio
- Cascade Pass, a mountain pass in Washington
- Cascade Tunnel, a railroad tunnel near Everett, Washington
- Shasta Cascade, a region of northern California
Seychelles
- Cascade, Seychelles, a district in the Republic of Seychelles
Australia
- Cascade National Park, a national park in New South Wales
Wales, UK
Cascade, Rhymney
Valley,
Technology
- Ablation cascade, a possible catastrophic orbital event
- Biochemical
cascade, a consecutive series of chemical reactions
- Complement cascade or Complement system, a biochemical cascade in the immune system
- MAPK cascade, a process in the action of cancer genes
- Cascade reaction, a consecutive series of chemical reactions within a molecule
- Electron cascade or Electron
avalanche, a process in physics
- Quantum cascade laser, a unipolar semiconductor laser
- Event cascade, a problem in event-driven computer programming
- Informational cascade, an economic theory
- Cascading failure, a failure in a system of interconnected parts
- Cascade (chemical engineering), a series of chemical processes
- Cascading rollback, multiple failure after a database rollback
- Cascading Style Sheets specifying the appearance of web information
- Fractional cascading, a data structuring technique for speeding up binary searches
Organizations
- Boise Cascade, an American pulp and paper company
- Cascade Bicycle Club, a non-profit organization and advocacy group, Seattle, Washington
- Cascade Brewery, a brewer in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Cascade College, a private college in Portland, Oregon
- Cascade Communications, a manufacturer of communications equipment
- Cascade Corporation, a manufacturer of Material Handling Equipment located in Portland, OR
- Cascade Investments LLC, a private investments and holding company owned by Bill Gates
- Cascade Limited, a subsidiary of Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW), a Hong Kong telecommunications company
- Cascade Lacrosse, a sports manufacturer
- Cascade Collegiate Conference, a sports conference in the western United States
- Open CASCADE, a software development company with head office in France
- CASCADE, an EU-funded research project, targeting health risks in food
Music
- Cascade (album), an album by folk rock band Capercaillie
- "Cascade" (song), a single by Future Sound of London
- Cascade (band), a Japanese Visual Kei band
- Another name for German dance group Cascada
Other
- Cascade Club and Spa[Cascade Club and Spa], premium health club based in Bangkok Thailand
- Cascade converter, a type of motor-generator
- Cascade (juggling), a juggling pattern
- Resonance cascade, the event that started "The Black Mesa Incident" in the Half-Life game series.
- Cascade virus, a computer virus
- USS Cascade (AD-16), a United States Navy destroyer tender
- A variety of hops found in North America
- Kemble's Cascade, a pattern of stars
- A brand name of detergent by Procter & Gamble
- A variety of Seibel grapes
- Superencryption, or Cascading encryption, when an encrypted message is encrypted again
See also
cascade in German: Kaskade
cascade in French: Cascade
cascade in Dutch: Cascade
cascade in Japanese: カスケード
cascade in Polish: Cascade
cascade in Portuguese: Cascata
cascade in Romanian: Cascadă
(dezambiguizare)
cascade in Russian: Каскад
cascade in Slovak: Kaskáda
cascade in Swedish: Kaskad
cascade in Urdu: آبشاری
cascade in Volapük: Cascade
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Niagara, bag, barf, belch, bring up, burst, cataract, chute, collapse, come down, comedown, crash, daggle, dangle, debacle, debouchment, declension, declination, defluxion, deluge, depend, descend, descending, descension, descent, dip down, disgorge, dissiliency, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend,
drabble, drag, draggle, drape, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, dropping, engulf, eructation, eruption, fall, fall down, fall off, falling, falls, flap, flare-up, flood, flop, flow, force, go down, go downhill,
gravitate, gravitation, gush, hang, hang down, heave, inclination, inundate, jet, linn, lop, lose altitude, nappe, nod, outbreak, outburst, overbrim, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, parachute, pend, pitch, plummet, plummeting, plunge, pounce, pour down, pour out, pour
over, precipitate,
puke, rain, rapids, run over, rush, sag, sault, slop, slosh, spate, spew, spill, spill out, spill over,
spout, spurt, stoop, submerge, swag, swamp, sweep, swing, swoop, throw up, torrent, trail, trend downward, upchuck, volcan, waterfall, watershoot, weep, whelm