Cascade

A cascade is

• a small splashing waterfall that tumbles down a mountainside in a series of steps.
• a series of musical notes.
• a series of events which follow each other rapidly, each of which triggers the next.

Cascade may also mean:

Places

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 in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park
• Cascade, British Columbia, aka Cascade Falls, a ghost town

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, 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

Seychelles

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

Australia

• Cascade National Park, a national park in New South Wales

WALES, UK

Cascade, Rhymney Valley,

Technology

• Ablation cascade, a possible catastrophic orbital event
• Biochemical cascade, a consecutive series of chemical reactions
  • 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
  • Quantum cascade laser, a unipolar semiconductor laser
• Event cascade, a problem in event-driven computer programming
• Informational cascade, an economic theory
• Cascading failure, a failure in a system of interconnected parts
• Cascade (chemical engineering), a series of chemical processes
• Cascading rollback, multiple failure after a database rollback
• Cascading Style Sheets specifying the appearance of web information
• Fractional cascading, a data structuring technique for speeding up binary searches

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 Corporation, a manufacturer of Material Handling Equipment in Portland, OR
• 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
• CASCADE, an EU-funded research project, targeting health risks in food

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
• Another name for German dance group Cascada

Other

• Cascade Club and Spa[Cascade Club and Spa], premium health club based in Bangkok Thailand
• 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
• A brand name of detergent by Procter & Gamble
• A variety of Seibel grapes
• Superencryption, or Cascading encryption, when an encrypted message is encrypted again

Related pages

• Cascades (disambiguation)
• Cascade Falls