Cascade
noun
A small waterfall, typically one of several that fall in stages down a steep rocky slope.
We hiked to see the beautiful cascade in the mountains.
Often appears as...
- water cascade
- cascade falls
noun
A process where something, typically information or knowledge, is successively passed on.
The data cascade from the server was seamless and efficient.
Often appears as...
- data cascade
- cascade effect
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Formal
Technical
noun
A large amount of something that hangs down or flows and spreads out in different levels.
She let her hair fall in a cascade down her back.
Often appears as...
- cascade of hair
- cascade of flowers
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Literary
verb
To fall or hang down in large quantities.
Tears cascaded down her face.
Often appears as...
- tears cascade
- flowers cascade
verb
To pass on to successive stages or people.
Information is cascaded down from the main server to the user terminals.
Often appears as...
- cascade information
- cascade effect
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A small waterfall, typically one of several that fall in stages down a steep rocky slope.
We hiked to see the beautiful cascade in the mountains.
Often appears as...
- water cascade
- cascade falls
noun
A process where something, typically information or knowledge, is successively passed on.
The data cascade from the server was seamless and efficient.
Often appears as...
- data cascade
- cascade effect
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A large amount of something that hangs down or flows and spreads out in different levels.
She let her hair fall in a cascade down her back.
Often appears as...
- cascade of hair
- cascade of flowers
Usage tips
Literary
verb
To fall or hang down in large quantities.
Tears cascaded down her face.
Often appears as...
- tears cascade
- flowers cascade
verb
To pass on to successive stages or people.
Information is cascaded down from the main server to the user terminals.
Often appears as...
- cascade information
- cascade effect
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Scenery
Use 'cascade' to describe scenic waterfalls, often found in nature and travel contexts.
The mountain trail offered a stunning view of a crystal-clear cascade.
Pro Tip 2/2Multiple Levels
'Cascade' implies multiple drops or stages, like steps, not just a single drop.
The garden featured a cascade with three tiers, each spilling into the next.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Scenery
Use 'cascade' to describe scenic waterfalls, often found in nature and travel contexts.
The mountain trail offered a stunning view of a crystal-clear cascade.
Pro Tip 2/2Multiple Levels
'Cascade' implies multiple drops or stages, like steps, not just a single drop.
The garden featured a cascade with three tiers, each spilling into the next.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Scenery
Use 'cascade' to describe scenic waterfalls, often found in nature and travel contexts.
The mountain trail offered a stunning view of a crystal-clear cascade.
Pro Tip 2/2Multiple Levels
'Cascade' implies multiple drops or stages, like steps, not just a single drop.
The garden featured a cascade with three tiers, each spilling into the next.
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The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
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The psychology of...
to help regulate functions like heart rate, digestion, and respiration. These signals start a chemical cascade that floods the body with several different stress hormones, causing physiological changes that prepare the body to defend itself. Our heart rate speeds up, breathing quickens,
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What You Can Do to...
You've tripped the cascade, setting fire to the forest, causing inflammation, tangles, and cell death. You should be symptomatic for Alzheimer's. You should be having trouble finding words and keys and remembering what I said at the beginning of this talk. But you might not be.
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Why modern renewable...
power than from nuclear power nuclear and coal plants prospects are fading worldwide because wind and solar power are cheaper and can also make grids resilience preventing cascading blackouts but these modern renewables also scale up in a fundamentally
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Earth 101 PIPE National...
thereby having unique cascading effects on the planet. It hydrates the land helping create nutrient rich soil. It collects and pools to form oceans and freshwater systems. And it cycles upward to add moisture to Earth's protective atmosphere.
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From the top of the food...
that the wolves abandoned. So did bears, which also ate the berries on the returning shrubs. Bison numbers rose as they browsed the revitalized forests. The wolves changed almost everything. This is an example of a trophic cascade,
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Grizzly Bear Gets Too...
well sometimes you get it completely right and all the times you fail dismal and this is definitely a fighter we didn't get enough rain in the night obviously to turn this rocky cascade into a float deep enough to an hour the
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How to see with sound -...
and composited into a life-like image. The operator can then zoom in and focus on different areas. And since ultrasound machines send and receive cascades of waves in real time, the machine can even visualize movement.
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How does caffeine keep...
When adenosine docks to these receptors, it activates a cascade of biochemical reactions that cause neurons to fire more sluggishly and slow the release of important brain-signaling molecules.
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Rare Video: Japan...
contents seawater cascaded over sea walls and into cities this video shows the water rushing over an 18-foot seawall in the comedy city the seawall here was the world's deepest and largest
Video examples
The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
Video examples
The psychology of...
to help regulate functions like heart rate, digestion, and respiration. These signals start a chemical cascade that floods the body with several different stress hormones, causing physiological changes that prepare the body to defend itself. Our heart rate speeds up, breathing quickens,
Video examples
What You Can Do to...
You've tripped the cascade, setting fire to the forest, causing inflammation, tangles, and cell death. You should be symptomatic for Alzheimer's. You should be having trouble finding words and keys and remembering what I said at the beginning of this talk. But you might not be.
Video examples
Why modern renewable...
power than from nuclear power nuclear and coal plants prospects are fading worldwide because wind and solar power are cheaper and can also make grids resilience preventing cascading blackouts but these modern renewables also scale up in a fundamentally
Video examples
Earth 101 PIPE National...
thereby having unique cascading effects on the planet. It hydrates the land helping create nutrient rich soil. It collects and pools to form oceans and freshwater systems. And it cycles upward to add moisture to Earth's protective atmosphere.
Video examples
From the top of the food...
that the wolves abandoned. So did bears, which also ate the berries on the returning shrubs. Bison numbers rose as they browsed the revitalized forests. The wolves changed almost everything. This is an example of a trophic cascade,
Video examples
Grizzly Bear Gets Too...
well sometimes you get it completely right and all the times you fail dismal and this is definitely a fighter we didn't get enough rain in the night obviously to turn this rocky cascade into a float deep enough to an hour the
Video examples
How to see with sound -...
and composited into a life-like image. The operator can then zoom in and focus on different areas. And since ultrasound machines send and receive cascades of waves in real time, the machine can even visualize movement.
Video examples
How does caffeine keep...
When adenosine docks to these receptors, it activates a cascade of biochemical reactions that cause neurons to fire more sluggishly and slow the release of important brain-signaling molecules.
Video examples
Rare Video: Japan...
contents seawater cascaded over sea walls and into cities this video shows the water rushing over an 18-foot seawall in the comedy city the seawall here was the world's deepest and largest
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James E. Faust
American Clergyman
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.
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Mary Callahan Erdoes
American Businesswoman
The U.S. has to realize it's got so much going for it. Let's just get ourselves to come together as a team - one team running the country, helping that country to get itself back on stable footing, which then cascades to the rest of the world.
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Tim Ferriss
American Author
When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.
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Mike Huckabee
American Politician
I hurt my knee, and that messed up my running, and boy did that ever just have a cascade effect. I've gained about thirty pounds that my doctors have screamed at me about. I've got to get that off, and I know that.
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Evan Osnos
American Journalist
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.
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Dave deBronkart
American Writer
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
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Joel A. Barker
American Businessman
When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.
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Walter Jon Williams
American Writer
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
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Lydia Millet
American Novelist
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
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Queen Rania of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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James E. Faust
American Clergyman
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.
Quote examples
Mary Callahan Erdoes
American Businesswoman
The U.S. has to realize it's got so much going for it. Let's just get ourselves to come together as a team - one team running the country, helping that country to get itself back on stable footing, which then cascades to the rest of the world.
Quote examples
Tim Ferriss
American Author
When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.
Quote examples
Mike Huckabee
American Politician
I hurt my knee, and that messed up my running, and boy did that ever just have a cascade effect. I've gained about thirty pounds that my doctors have screamed at me about. I've got to get that off, and I know that.
Quote examples
Evan Osnos
American Journalist
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.
Quote examples
Dave deBronkart
American Writer
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
Quote examples
Joel A. Barker
American Businessman
When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.
Quote examples
Walter Jon Williams
American Writer
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
Quote examples
Lydia Millet
American Novelist
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
Quote examples
Queen Rania of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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