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gravity throwing a tantrum and somehow making it the most beautiful thing in the room
means A cascade is a series of things falling, flowing, or happening one after another, like a small waterfall or a chain of triggered events.
from From the Italian 'cascata,' meaning a waterfall, which comes from 'cascare,' to fall — itself rooted in the Latin 'casare,' a frequentative of 'cadere,' to fall (the same ancestor that gives us 'cadence' and 'accident'). The word tumbled into French as 'cascade' and then into English in the 17th century, carried in by travelers admiring the ornamental waterfalls of Italian gardens. So before it ever meant a chain reaction of dominoes or data, it simply meant water doing the dramatic thing water does over a ledge.
- word origin
- From Italian cascata, meaning a fall
- code style
- The C in CSS stands for cascading
- failure mode
- Cascading failures topple whole power grids in seconds
- in nature
- Salmon leap up cascades to spawn upstream
- chemistry
- Reactions can cascade, each step triggering the next
niagara falls — 188-foot waterfall on the canada-us border flowing from lake erie to lake ontario
yosemite falls — 2,425-foot cascade in california's yosemite valley, tallest in north america
multnomah falls — 620-foot waterfall in oregon's columbia river gorge, iconic historic highway landmark