Princeton's WordNet

1. cascade(noun)

   a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls

2. cascade(noun)

   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. shower, cascade(verb)

   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"

4. cascade, cascade down(verb)

   rush down in big quantities, like a cascade

5. cascade(verb)

   arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible

Wiktionary

1. cascade(Noun)

   A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

   Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. -Cawper

2. cascade(Noun)

   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 uE000182303uE001 Richard M. Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press, 2001

3. cascade(Noun)

   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

4. cascade(Noun)

   A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.

5. cascade(Noun)

   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. cascade(Verb)

   To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

7. cascade(Verb)

   To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.

8. cascade(Verb)

   To occur as a causal sequence.

9. cascade(Verb)

   To vomit.

Origin: cascade, from cascata, from cascare

Webster Dictionary

1. Cascade(noun)

   a fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract

2. Cascade(verb)

   to fall in a cascade

3. Cascade(verb)

   to vomit

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. cascade

   1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output produced by a compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as a missing ‘)’ or ‘}’) throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. 2. A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an include war in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito.

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. Cascade

   The arrangement of Leyden jars in series on insulating supports, as described below.

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