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cascade definition

cas·cade (kas kād′)

noun

  1. a small, steep waterfall, esp. one of a series
  2. anything suggesting this, as a shower of sparks or an arrangement of lace in rippling folds
  3. a connected series, as of amplifiers for an increase in output

Etymology: Fr < It cascata < cascare, to fall < VL *casicare < pp. of L cadere: see case

transitive verb, intransitive verb cascaded -·cad′ed, cascading -·cad′·ing

  1. to fall or drop in a cascade
  2. to connect in a series

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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