Cascade

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A cascade is a type of waterfall or a series of waterfalls.

Cascade may also refer to:

Aerodynamics

Casecade, the periodic equidistant arrangement of several blades or vanes of turbomachineries.

Cascade Mountain (Alberta), a mountain located in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park
Cascade, British Columbia, aka Cascade Falls, a ghost town

Cascade, Colorado, an unincorporated town in El Paso County
- Cascade-Chipita Park, Colorado, a census-designated place
Cascade, Idaho, a city in Valley County
Cascade, Iowa, a city in Dubuque County and Jones County
Cascade, Montana, a town in Cascade County
Cascade, New Hampshire, a village within the town of Gorham and the city of Berlin
Cascade, Seattle, Washington, a small neighborhood abutting downtown Seattle
Cascade, Wisconsin, a village in Sheboygan County
Cascade-Fairwood, Washington, a census-designated place in King County
Cascade Locks, Oregon, a city in Hood River County
Cascade Township, Michigan, a charter township of Kent County
Cascade Township, Minnesota, in Olmsted County
Cascade Township, Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County
Cascade Valley, Washington, a census-designated place in Grant County

Cascade Highway (Washington), a portion of U.S. Route 2 through the northern Cascades in Washington
Cascade Highway (Oregon), a portion of Oregon Route 213 running from Silverton to Stayton in Oregon
Cascade Lakes, a collection of lakes in Oregon
Cascade Mountain (New York), a mountain in Essex County of New York
Cascade Park, a Lorain County Metropark in Elyria, Ohio
Cascade Pass, a mountain pass in Washington
Cascade Tunnel, a railroad tunnel near Everett, Washington
Shasta Cascade, a region of northern California

Ablation cascade, a possible catastrophic orbital event
Biochemical cascade, a consecutive series of chemical reactions
- Coagulation cascade, the process by which the body clots blood
- Complement cascade or Complement system, a biochemical cascade in the immune system
- MAPK cascade, a process in the action of cancer genes
Cascade reaction, a consecutive series of chemical reactions within a molecule
Cascading classifiers, a multistage classification scheme
Electron cascade or Electron avalanche, a process in physics
- Quantum cascade laser, a unipolar semiconductor laser
Event cascade, a problem in event-driven computer programming
Informational cascade, an economic theory
Cascading failure, a failure in a system of interconnected parts
Cascade (chemical engineering), a series of chemical processes
Cascade connection, a structure in systems theory that describes the connection of the output of one system to the input of another
Cascading rollback, multiple failure after a database rollback
Cascade storage system
Cascading Style Sheets specifying the appearance of web information
Fractional cascading, a data structuring technique for speeding up binary searches
Cascade (software), a software configuration management tool suite
Cascade failure: in an overhead power line during an ice storm, for one pylon to fall from weight of ice on wires, and the resulting unbalanced stresses bring down the next pylon along in each direction, and this repeats until miles of pylons have fallen.

Boise Cascade, an American pulp and paper company
Cascade Bicycle Club, a non-profit organization and advocacy group, Seattle, Washington
Cascade Brewery, a brewer in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Cascade College, a private college in Portland, Oregon
Cascade Communications, a manufacturer of communications equipment
Cascade Corporation, a manufacturer of Material Handling Equipment located in Portland, OR
Cascade Investments LLC, a private investments and holding company owned by Bill Gates
Cascade Limited, a subsidiary of Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW), a Hong Kong telecommunications company
Cascade Lacrosse, a sports manufacturer
Cascade Collegiate Conference, a sports conference in the western United States
Open CASCADE, a software development company with head office in France
CASCADE, an EU-funded research project, targeting health risks in food

Cascade converter, a type of motor-generator
Cascade (juggling), a juggling pattern
Resonance cascade, the event that started "The Black Mesa Incident" in the Half-Life game series.
Cascade virus, a computer virus
USS Cascade (AD-16), a United States Navy destroyer tender
A variety of hops found in North America
Kemble's Cascade, a pattern of stars
A brand name of detergent by Procter & Gamble
A variety of Seibel grapes
Superencryption, or Cascading encryption, when an encrypted message is encrypted again
Golden Cascade, a breed of duck
Discrete dynamical system, a term in mathematics
Cascade God, A God of the Tetris world.