Usually means: Chain reaction from initial action.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word domino effect:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. domino effect: Merriam-Webster
  2. domino effect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. domino effect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. domino effect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. domino effect: Vocabulary.com
  6. domino-effect: Wordnik
  7. the domino effect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. domino effect: Wiktionary
  9. domino effect: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. domino effect: Dictionary.com
  11. Domino Effect (Gotthard album), Domino Effect (disambiguation), Domino Effect, Domino effect, The Domino Effect (novel), The Domino Effect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. domino effect: Rhymezone
  13. domino effect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. domino effect: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. domino effect: FreeDictionary.org
  16. domino effect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. domino effect: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Domino Effect, The Domino Effect: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See domino_effects as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (domino effect)

noun:  The situation in which one event sets off a chain of additional events.
noun:  (politics, historical) The theory that, if South Vietnam became communist, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, additional Southeast Asian countries, other Asian countries, and likely even elsewhere.

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