| n. | 1. | A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. |
| v. i. | 1. | To fall in a cascade. |
| 2. | To vomit. |
| Noun | 1. | cascade - a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls |
| 2. | cascade - a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes" | |
| 3. | cascade - a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks" Synonyms: shower | |
| Verb | 1. | cascade - rush down in big quantities, like a cascade Synonyms: cascade down |
| 2. | cascade - arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible |
| 1. | (compiler) | cascade - A huge volume of spurious error-messages output by a compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as a missing ")" or "}") throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text, whether correct or not, is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. | |
| 2. | (messaging) | cascade - A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an include war in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito. | |
| 3. | (networking) | cascade - A collection of interconneced networking devices, typically hubs, that allows those devices to act together as a logical repeater. |