Cascade

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

In ecology, cascade can refer to:

• Trophic cascade, when predators in a food web suppress their prey, releasing the next lower trophic level from predation
• Cascade effect (ecology), the triggering of series of secondary extinctions

Cascade may also refer to:

Contents 1 Technology 2 Places 2.1 Australia 2.2 Canada 2.3 Jamaica 2.4 Norfolk Island 2.5 North America 2.6 Seychelles 2.7 United States 3 Organizations 4 Music 5 Other 6 See also

[edit] Technology

• Ablation cascade, a possible catastrophic orbital event (see Kessler syndrome)
• 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
• Information 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, such as a cascade amplifier
• 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.

[edit] Places

[edit] Australia

• Cascade National Park, a national park in New South Wales
• The Cascades, a waterfall in Gloucester National Park

[edit] Canada

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

[edit] Jamaica

Cascade, Jamaica, a village

[edit] Norfolk Island

• Cascade, Norfolk Island, a site considered by some to be a settlement, in the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island.

[edit] North America

• Cascade Range, a mountain range on the west coast of North America
• Cascade Volcanoes, a grouping of volcanoes on the west coast of North America

[edit] Seychelles

• Cascade, Seychelles, a district in the Republic of Seychelles

[edit] United States

Communities

• 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, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County
• Cascade Valley, Washington, a census-designated place in Grant County

Other U.S. locations

• 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

[edit] Organizations

• 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 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

[edit] Music

• Cascade (album), an album by folk rock band Capercaillie
• "Cascade" (song), a single by Future Sound of London
• Cascade (band), a Japanese Visual Kei band
• former name for German dance group Cascada
• Cascade (album), an album by Irish Death Grind band Abaddon Incarnate
• Cadence and Cascade, the King Crimson song.
• Alias of the DJ duo Transa

[edit] Other

• 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
• Cascade (detergent), 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

[edit] See also

• Cascade Falls

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