A cascade is a term for a waterfall, or series of waterfalls, and is applied abstractly to many different concepts involving a series of steps or effects that follow one after the other. A cascade may be:

A process:

• Ablation cascade, a possible catastrophic orbital event
• Biochemical cascade, a consecutive series of chemical reactions
  • Complement cascade, a biochemical cascade in the immune system
  • MAPK cascade, a process in the action of cancer genes
• Cascade reaction, a consecutive series of chemical reactions within a molecule
• Cascade (chemical engineering), a consecutive series of processes for the separation or purification of chemicals
• Cascade (juggling) and reverse cascade, patterns for juggling objects
• Cascading failure, a consecutive series of failures in a system of interconnected parts
• Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language
• Electron cascade, a process in physics
  • Quantum cascade laser
• Event cascade, a problem in event-driven computer programming
• Informational cascade, an economic theory

A device:

• Cascade converter, a type of motor-generator
• Cascader, a type of computer compiler

A place:

• Cities:
  • Cascade, Idaho
  • Cascade, Iowa
  • Cascade, Montana
  • Cascade, New Hampshire
  • Cascade, Seattle, Washington
  • Cascade, Wisconsin
  • Cascade Locks, Oregon

• Cascade, Seychelles, a district in the Republic of Seychelles
• Cascade County, Montana, United States
• Cascade Highway, in Washington and Oregon in the United States
• Cascade Lakes, a collection of lakes in Oregon
• Cascade Mountain (Alberta) in Canada
• Cascade Mountain (New York) in United States
• Cascade National Park, a national park in New South Wales, Australia
• Cascade Pass, a mountain pass in Oregon
• Cascade Range, a mountain range on the west coast of North America
• Cascade Tunnel, a railroad tunnel near Everett, Washington
• Shasta Cascade, a region of Northern California

An organization:

• Boise Cascade, an American pulp and paper company
• Cascade Brewery, a brewer in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Cascade College, a private college in Portland, Oregon
• Cascade Communications, a manufacturer of communications equipment
• Cascade Limited, a subsidiary of Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW), a Hong Kong telecommunications company
• Cascade Lacrosse, a sports manufacturer
• Cascade Conference, a sports conference in the western United States
• Open CASCADE SAS, a software development company with head office in France

Cascade may also refer to:

• The Seibel 13053 grape
• A brand name of dishwasher detergent, made by Procter & Gamble
• USS Cascade, a United States Navy destroyer tender
• Kemble's Cascade, a pattern of stars
• The original name for the musician Cascada
• "Cascade", a single by electronic musicians Future Sound of London

See also

• Cascades (disambiguation)

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