What does CASCADE mean?

Definitions for CASCADE
kæsˈkeɪdcas·cade

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cascadenoun

    a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls

  2. cascadenoun

    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, cascadeverb

    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 downverb

    rush down in big quantities, like a cascade

  5. cascadeverb

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

Wiktionary

  1. cascadenoun

    A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

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

  2. cascadenoun

    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. cascadenoun

    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. cascadenoun

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

  5. cascadenoun

    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. cascadeverb

    To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

  7. cascadeverb

    To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.

  8. cascadeverb

    To occur as a causal sequence.

  9. cascadeverb

    To vomit.

  10. Etymology: cascade, from cascata, from cascare

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Cascadenoun

    A cataract; a water-fall.

    Etymology: cascade, Fr. cascata, Ital. from cascare, a low word, to fall.

    Rivers diverted from their native course,
    And bound with chains of artificial force,
    From large cascades in pleasing tumult roll’d,
    Or rose through figur’d stone, or breathing gold. Matthew Prior.

    The most enlivening part of all is the river Teverone, which throws itself down a precipice, and falls by several cascades, from one rock to another, till it gains the bottom of the valley. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

ChatGPT

  1. cascade

    A cascade generally refers to a process that occurs in successive stages, where each stage is triggered or influenced by the preceding one. It can also refer to a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, or to a large amount or quantity of something occurring or flowing at the same time. The term is used in various professional fields such as physics, engineering, computer science, medicine, and ecology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cascadenoun

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

  2. Cascadeverb

    to fall in a cascade

  3. Cascadeverb

    to vomit

  4. Etymology: [F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to fall.]

Wikidata

  1. Cascade

    Cascade is a city in Dubuque County and Jones County, Iowa, United States. The Dubuque County portion is part of Dubuque Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Jones County portion is part of Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,159 at the 2010 census, up from 1,958 at the 2000 census. The city is located at the southwestern edge of Dubuque County, at the border of Dubuque and Jones Counties. Arguably the town's most notable historic event was the 1925 flood. Between 1880 to 1936 the town was connected to Bellevue via the Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee Railway Company. U.S. Route 151 runs through Cascade but in 2002 a four-lane bypass took traffic north around the city. Iowa Highway 136 runs from north to south through Cascade.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cascade

    kas-kād′, n. a waterfall: a trimming of lace or other material in a loose wavy fall.—v.i. to fall in cascades. [Fr.,—It.—L. cadĕre, to fall.]

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.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. cascade

    A fall of water from a considerable height, rather by successive stages than in a single mass, as with a cataract.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CASCADE in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CASCADE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of CASCADE in a Sentence

  1. Scott Steiner:

    The next day, it's when we began seeing people coming to our emergency room who were sick, two( people) the first day, six the next day, eight the next day, and it just began to cascade from that point.

  2. Elvis Picardo:

    When you have a dramatic decline like you've seen in oil prices, it could herald a turning point (in sentiment), i see a compelling buying opportunity in the energy space, but it's hard to convince people about that because of the ongoing cascade of bad news on oil.

  3. Kendra Viner:

    I think the treatments are fantastic, as long as we get people to that stage in the cascade, the outlook is very good.

  4. Washington Post:

    Biden presented himself as an antidote to his predecessor, offering the promise of what his own campaign ads called ‘strong, steady, stable leadership’ after four years of bedlam under President Donald Trump. But the tumult surrounding the administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan offered an early glimpse of the cascade of crises that have badly eroded Biden’s image of restoring calm.

  5. Richard Dunley:

    You’re having to take submarines out for quite a significant chunk of time to refit them, and if there are delays or issues that could cascade and you could see issues where Australia actually doesn’t have enough submariners to maintain its current forces of mariners, let alone augment that.

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