Usually means: Series of events causing more.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. cascade: Merriam-Webster
  2. cascade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cascade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cascade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cascade: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cascade, cascade: Wordnik
  7. cascade: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cascade, cascade: Wiktionary
  9. cascade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cascade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cascade: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cascade: Dictionary.com
  13. cascade: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cascade: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cascade (Guy Manning album), Cascade (Peter Murphy album), Cascade (William Basinski album), Cascade (band), Cascade (chemical engineering), Cascade (computer virus), Cascade (grape), Cascade (juggling), Cascade (train), Cascade, The Cascade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cascade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cascade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cascade: Rhymezone
  19. cascade, cascade (de), cascade (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cascade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cascade: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cascade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cascade: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. cascade: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. cascade: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cascade: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. cascade: Netlingo
  3. cascade: CCI Computer
  4. cascade: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. cascade: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cascade: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. cascade: Medical dictionary
  7. Cascade: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CASCADE: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Cascade: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cascade, cascade: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cascade: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cascade: Skydiving Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. CASCADE: Power Engineering

(Note: See cascaded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
noun:  (figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
noun:  A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.
noun:  (juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
noun:  (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).
noun:  A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
noun:  (chemistry) A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next
verb:  (intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
verb:  (intransitive) To occur as a causal sequence.
verb:  (transitive) To pass (something) down through a chain or system in a flow or series of movements.
verb:  (archaic, slang) To vomit.
noun:  An administrative district in Seychelles
noun:  A small city, the county seat of Valley County, Idaho, United States.
noun:  A city in Iowa.
noun:  A town in Montana.
noun:  A town in Wisconsin.
noun:  A town and settlement in Jamaica.
noun:  A town in Western Australia.

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