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< cascabel

cascade molecule >

cas·cade    (k-skd) KEY  

NOUN:

1. A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks.
2. Something, such as lace, thought to resemble a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, especially an arrangement or fall of material.
3. A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.
4. Electronics A series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for the next.
5. A chemical or physiological process that occurs in successive stages, each of which is dependent on the preceding one, and often producing a cumulative effect: an enzymatic cascade.

intr. & tr.v.
cas·cad·ed , cas·cad·ing , cas·cades

To fall or cause to fall in or as if in a cascade.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Italian cascata, from cascare, to fall, from Vulgar Latin *casicre, from Latin cadere; see kad- in Indo-European roots

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