Cascade Explained

Cascade, Cascades or Cascading may refer to:

Science and technology

Science

• Cascade waterfalls, or series of waterfalls
• Cascade, the CRISPR-associated complex for antiviral defense (a protein complex)
• Cascade (grape), a type of fruit
• Biochemical cascade, a series of biochemical reactions, in which a product of the previous step is the substrate of the next
• Energy cascade, a process important in turbulent flow and drag by which kinetic energy is converted into heat
• Collision cascade, a set of nearby adjacent energetic collisions of atoms induced by an energetic particle in a solid or liquid
• Ecological cascade, a series of secondary extinctions triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem
• Trophic cascade, an interaction that can occur throughout an ecosystem when a trophic level is suppressed
• Air shower (physics)
• Particle shower

Computing

• Cascading classifiers, a multistage classification scheme
• Cascading deletion, a way to handle deletions in database systems
• Cascading (software), an abstraction layer for Hadoop
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), style sheet language used in markup languages like HTML
• Cascade (computer virus), a type of computer virus in the 1980s
• Method cascading, in object-oriented languages

Engineering

• Cascade amplifier, any two-port network constructed from a series of amplifiers
• Cascade (chemical engineering), a series of chemical processes
• Cascading failure, a mode of failure in which the loss of one interlinked network node causes the overload of others
• Cascade filling system, for gasses
• Cascade connection, a type of electrical network connection
• Cascade motor connection, a speed control system for induction motor

Places

• Cascade Range, a mountain range on the west coast of North America
• Cascade Creek (disambiguation)
• Cascade Falls (disambiguation)
• Cascade River (disambiguation)
• Yerevan Cascade

Australia

• Cascade, Norfolk Island, a settlement in the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island
• Cascades, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart
• Cascade, Western Australia

Canada

• Cascade City, British Columbia, aka Cascade Falls, a ghost town
• Cascade Falls (Kettle River), the eponymous waterfall near Cascade City
• Cascade Inlet, a side-inlet of Dean Channel in the Central Coast region of British Columbia
• Cascade Falls (Iskut River), waterfall in the Stikine-Iskut region of British Columbia
• Cascade Falls Regional Park, located on Cascade Creek northeast of the District of Mission in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia

United States

• Cascades (ecoregion), an area of Washington, Oregon, and California
• Cascade, California, an unincorporated community in Plumas County
• Cascade, Colorado
• Cascade, Idaho
• Lake Cascade, a reservoir in Idaho
• Cascade, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Cascade, Iowa, a city in Dubuque County and Jones County
• Cascade Township, Michigan
• Cascade Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota
• Cascade, Missouri
• Cascade, Montana
• Cascade County, Montana
• Cascade, Nebraska
• Cascade, New Hampshire
• Cascade, Ohio, a former town in Putnam County
• Cascade Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
• Cascade, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Cascades, Virginia, a census-designated place in Loudoun County
• Cascade, Seattle, Washington
• Cascade-Fairwood, Washington, a census-designated place in King County
• Cascade, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Cascade, Wisconsin, a village in Sheboygan County

Elsewhere

• Cascade, Jamaica, a settlement in Jamaica
• Cascade, Seychelles, an administrative district of Seychelles
• Penpedairheol, Caerphilly, also known as "Cascade", South Wales, United Kingdom
• Cascade, a public housing estates in Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong

Organizations

• Cascade Brewery, a brewery founded in 1832 in Australia
• Cascade Communications, a communications equipment manufacturer
• Cascade Investment, a financial company
• Cascades (company), a paper pulp company, founded in 1957 in Canada
• Open Cascade, a software development company with head office in France

Arts and entertainment

• The Cascade, a Canadian newspaper, first published in 1993 in British Columbia
• [S] Cascade, a flash animation from the webcomic Homestuck

Music

Artists

• Cascade (band), a Japanese rock group, who formed in 1993
• Cascade, a former name of the German dance group Cascada
• Cascade, a British DJ duo also recording under the alias Transa

Albums

• Cascade, a 1984 album by Capercaillie
• Cascade, a 1986 album recorded by Terry Oldfield
• Cascade (Peter Murphy album), a 1995 album by Peter Murphy
• Cascade (Guy Manning album), a 2001 album by Guy Manning
• Cascade, a 2009 album by Abaddon Incarnate
• Cascade (William Basinski album), a 2015 album by William Basinski

Songs

• "Cascade", a song written by Gene Slone and played by Chet Atkins on his 1977 album Me and My Guitar
• "Cascade", a song by Spyro Gyra from the 1978 album Spyro Gyra
• "Cascade", a song by Siouxsie and the Banshees from the 1982 album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
• "Cascade" (song), a 1993 single by The Future Sound of London
• "Cascade", a song by Dave Weckl from the 2005 album Multiplicity
• "The Cascade", a song by Moving Mountains from the 2011 album Waves
• "Cascade", a song by Kreidler from the 2012 album Den

Transportation

• Cascade (train), a railroad train
• USS Cascade (AD-16), a 1942 ship

Other uses

• Cascade College, a former college in Oregon, US
• Cascade (juggling), a juggling pattern
• Cascade hop, an agricultural crop
• Jabot (window), also called a cascade, a type of interior decor
• Information cascade, when people use the actions of others as an input to their own actions
• Cascade, a household dishwashing detergent manufactured by Procter & Gamble

See also

• Cascades (disambiguation)
• Cascade Lake (disambiguation)
• KASCADE, a European physics experiment
• Kaskade (Ryan Gary Raddon, born 1971), American DJ
• Cascada (disambiguation)
• Cascadia (disambiguation)
• Collisional cascading (disambiguation)
  • • • • Cascode, a type of amplifier in electronics