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cascade

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 819 Housing Units (2000): 349 Land area (2000): 0.524368 sq. miles (1.358106 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.524368 sq. miles (1.358106 sq. km) FIPS code: 12775 Located within: Montana ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cascade (stylized as CASCADE ) is a Japanese visual kei rock band, with a sound not typical of others in the movement, in that it is strongly influenced by new wave music . The band formed in 1993 and disbanded in August 2002, but six years later the band ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from French cascade (17c.), from Italian cascata "waterfall," from cascare "to fall," from Vulgar Latin *casicare , frequentative of Latin casum , casus , past participle of cadere "to fall" (see case (n.1)).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls 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" a sudden downpour ...

Usage examples of cascade.

The long obsession had died with Maynard, and he had been dead before he hit the peat, like Cascade and Cotopaxi, Abseil and Col.

Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.

Crimson clover has highest adaptation to the States east of the Allegheny Mountains and west of the Cascades, but will also grow in the more Central States south, in which moisture is abundant.

Without irrigation, the highest adaptation, all things considered, is found in Washington and Oregon, west of the Cascades, except where shallow soils lying on gravels exist.

I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade - finding, for instance, that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group.

The child, with face ashy white and eyes glistening, her spirit borne aloft by the fervent strains of the litanies, was gazing at the altar, where in imagination she could see the roses multiplying and falling in cascades.

For a while his mind left the bewildering cascade of events that had occurred since the day Tirilen had led him down the steep road from the Castle to look at the strange tinker on the village green.

But her silver hair had brushed his arm, a cascade of silk only rivaled by the smooth flesh of her wrist caught in his grip, the soft swell of her breast against his biceps, and the sweet scent of her female body.

Apparently the molecule caused a very complex cascade effect, in which the release of certain biogenic amines caused the release of other chemicals, and so on.

Somehow this brought home to her for the first time the sheer force of the Multiplier migration, its quality of being a cascading explosion of thistledown birling through and filling and abhorring the vacuum.

The seven tons of armor rocked back and forward as the bomblets cascaded off its hull.

Great-grandfather Bruder, he wondered, how easy do your bones lie, back in the cold and stony earth of the Cascades?

Then boots appeared before her, and strong hands and arms lifted Cec clear into the air, water cascading from her dress and legs.

The cingulate just sets off cascades of stress transmitters when reality is not shared, or pleasure transmitters when it is.

At the same time a torrent of lava, bursting from the new summit, poured out in long cascades, like water escaping from a vase too full, and a thousand tongues of fire crept over the sides of the volcano.