Cascade

Cascade may refer to:

Science and technology

Natural sciences

• a type of waterfall or a series of waterfalls.
• 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
• Electron cascade or Electron avalanche, a process in physics
• Kemble's Cascade, a pattern of stars
• 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

Computer science

• Cascading classifiers, a multistage classification scheme
• Event cascade, a problem in event-driven computer programming
• Cascade connection, in systems theory, the connection of the output of one system to the input of another
  • cascade amplifier, cascade connected amplifier circuits
• Cascading rollback, multiple failure after a database rollback
• Fractional cascading, a data structuring technique for speeding up binary searches
• Cascade (software), a software configuration management tool suite
• Cascade virus, a computer virus
• Superencryption, or Cascading encryption, when an encrypted message is encrypted again

Social sciences

• Information cascade, an economic theory

Engineering

• Ablation cascade, a possible catastrophic orbital event (see Kessler syndrome)
• Cascading failure, a failure in a system of interconnected parts
• Cascade (chemical engineering), a series of chemical processes
• Cascade storage system for gasses
• Cascade failure, the failure of one pylon on an overhead power line causing further pylons to fall
• Cascade converter, a type of motor-generator
• Villard cascade a voltage multiplier

Places

Australia

• Cascade National Park, a national park in New South Wales
• The Cascades, a waterfall in Gloucester National Park
• Cascade, Western Australia
• Cascade, Norfolk Island, a site considered by some to be a settlement, in the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island

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

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

United States

Communities:

• Cascade, California, an unincorporated town in Plumas County
• Cascade, Colorado, an unincorporated town in El Paso County
  • Cascade-Chipita Park, Colorado, a census-designated place
• Cascade, Atlanta, an area in Southwestern Atlanta, Georgia

• Cascade Heights, a neighborhood in Cascade, Southwestern Atlanta, Georgia

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

Other 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

Elsewhere

• Cascade, Jamaica, a village
• Cascade, Seychelles, a district in the Republic of Seychelles
• Cascade is an informal English name for the village of Penpedairheol, Caerphilly in South Wales

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

Music

• Cascade (band), a Japanese rock band
• "Cascade" (song), a single by Future Sound of London
• Cascade, an album by Scottish band Capercaillie (band)
• Cascade, an album by Irish band Abaddon Incarnate
• Cascade,an album by Peter Murphy (musician)
• Former name of the German dance group Cascada
• Alias of the DJ duo Transa

Other

• The Cascade, a student newspaper located in Abbotsford, British Columbia
• Cascade (juggling), a juggling pattern
• Resonance cascade, the event that started "The Black Mesa Incident" in the Half-Life game series.
• USS Cascade (AD-16), a United States Navy destroyer tender
• Cascade hops, a variety of hops found in North America
• Cascade (detergent), a brand name of detergent by Procter & Gamble
• A variety of Seibel grapes
• Golden Cascade, a breed of duck

See also

• Cascade Falls (disambiguation)
• Cascades (disambiguation)