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cas·cade     (kā-skād')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks.
  2. Something, such as lace, thought to resemble a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, especially an arrangement or fall of material.
  3. A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.
  4. Electronics A series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for the next.
  5. A chemical or physiological process that occurs in successive stages, each of which is dependent on the preceding one, and often producing a cumulative effect: an enzymatic cascade.
intr. & tr.v.   cas·cad·ed, cas·cad·ing, cas·cades
To fall or cause to fall in or as if in a cascade.

[French, from Italian cascata, from cascare, to fall, from Vulgar Latin *casicāre, from Latin cadere; see kad- in Indo-European roots.]
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cascades

noun
a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range 

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cascade   (kās-kād')  Pronunciation Key 
A series of chemical or physiological processes that occur in successive stages, each of which is dependent on the preceding one, to produce a culminating effect. The steps involved in the clotting of blood occur as a cascade.

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Cascades

Mountain chain extending from British Columbia, Canada, south through Washington and Oregon to northern California. It is known for its many volcanoes.


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