1. A small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
   "The hikers rested by a beautiful cascade in the mountains"; "The garden featured a man-made cascade tumbling over rocks"
    
2. A succession of stages, operations, processes or units
   "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"
    
3. A sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc.) likened to a rain shower
   "a sudden cascade of sparks";
   - shower

1. Rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
   "Water cascaded down the mountainside";
   - cascade down
    
2. (computing) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
   "He cascaded the browser windows to see all the open tabs at once"

Derived forms: cascades, cascaded, cascading

Type of: arrange, come down, descend, descent, falls, go down, set up, succession, waterfall

Encyclopedia: Cascade, Ohio