What Is Cascade? Definition And Usage Of This Term

WHAT IS CASCADE – In this topic, we will first know and learn the definition of this term and how is this term used in sentences.

Definition

The Oxford Dictionary defines the term as the following:

a small waterfall, typically one of several that fall in stages down a steep rocky slope.
a mass of something that falls or hangs in copious or luxuriant quantities.
a process whereby something, typically information or knowledge, is successively passed
a succession of devices or stages in a process, each of which triggers or initiates the next.
(of water) pour downward rapidly and in large quantities.
fall or hang in copious or luxuriant quantities.
arrange (a number of devices or objects) in a series or sequence.

Meanwhile, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines this term as the following:

a steep usually small fall of water
something arranged or occurring in a series or in a succession of stages so that each stage derives from or acts upon the product of the preceding
a fall of material (such as lace) that hangs in a zigzag line and that is used especially in clothing and draperies
something falling or rushing forth in quantity

Synonyms

Here are some of the following synonyms:

Etymology

It is a mid 17th century term from the Italian term cascata, which is from cascare or ‘to fall’.

Examples

Here are some examples of the usage of this term:

She reached up to unclasp her now-blonde hair, dropping it in a cascade about her shoulders.
The glaciers must have reached the sea at Cascade Point in southern Westland.
– in the southern part of Morris county – it pursues a winding north-easterly course, passing through a gap in the trap rock at Little Falls, and by means of a cascade and a mile of rapids descends 40 ft.
On the Okanogan Highlands, on the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountains, on the Blue Mountains and on the elevated portion of the Columbia Plain which comprises the E.