cascade
/kæsˈkeɪd/ noun B2- A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
- A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade. · The bride carried a cascade of roses and baby's breath.· 2001, Richard Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events
- A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.
- A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
- 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).
- A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
- A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next
Plural cascades
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Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
Caderousse was filled with wonder; the young man’s words sounded to him like metal, and he thought he could hear the rushing of cascades of louis.
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