Cascade

n.	1.	A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. - Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. - Cowper.
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.

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