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cascaded Definition


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cascade
noun
    1. A waterfall or series of waterfalls.
      Thesaurus: waterfall, cataract.
    2. Something resembling a waterfall in appearance or manner of falling.
      Thesaurus: waterfall, waterworks, shower, fountain, deluge, flood, rush, torrent, cataract; Antonym: trickle.
    3. A large number of things arriving or to be dealt with suddenly.
      Example: The teen idols received a cascade of fan letters
    4. A sequence of successive chemical, etc processes.
    5. A sequence of stages in an electrical device, connected in such a way that each operates the next in the series.
verb
    intr
    cascaded, cascading
    1. To fall like a waterfall.
      Thesaurus: plunge, tumble, flood, descend, rush, shower, overflow, pitch, pour, spill, surge.
Etymology: 17c: French, from Italian cascata fall, from cascare to fall.



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