Cascade, or Cascading may refer to:

Science and technology

Science

  • Air shower (physics), a cascade (particle shower) of subatomic particles and ionized nuclei
  • Particle shower, a cascade of secondary particles produced as the result of a high-energy particle interacting with dense matter
  • Cascade, the CRISPR-associated complex for antiviral defense (a protein complex)
  • Cascade (grape), a type of fruit
  • Cascade waterfalls, or series of waterfalls
  • Biochemical cascade, a series of biochemical reactions, in which a product of the previous step is the substrate of the next
  • Collision cascade, a set of nearby adjacent energetic collisions of atoms induced by an energetic particle in a solid or liquid
  • Ecological cascade, a series of secondary extinctions triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem
  • Energy cascade, a process important in turbulent flow and drag by which kinetic energy is converted into heat
  • Trophic cascade, an interaction that can occur throughout an ecosystem when a trophic level is suppressed

Mathematics

  • Period-doubling cascade, an infinite sequence of period-doubling in dynamic systems

Computing

  • Cascade (computer virus), a type of computer virus in the 1980s
  • Cascading (software), an abstraction layer for Hadoop
  • Cascading classifiers, a multistage classification scheme
  • Cascading deletion, a way to handle deletions in database systems
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), style sheet language used in markup languages like HTML
  • Method cascading, in object-oriented languages

Engineering

  • Cascade (chemical engineering), a series of chemical processes
  • Cascade amplifier, any two-port network constructed from a series of amplifiers
  • Cascade connection, a type of electrical network connection
  • Cascade motor connection, a speed control system for induction motor
  • Cascade failure, a mode of failure in which the loss of one interlinked network node causes the overload of others
  • Cascade filling system, for gases

Horticulture

  • Cascade - an artificial waterfall designed to embellish a large garden or country estate

Places

  • Cascade Creek (disambiguation)
  • Cascade Falls (disambiguation)
  • Cascade Lake (disambiguation)
  • Cascade Range, a mountain range on the west coast of North America
  • Cascade River (disambiguation)
  • Cascades (disambiguation)

Australia

  • Cascade, Norfolk Island, a settlement in the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island
  • Cascade, Western Australia

Canada

  • Cascade City, British Columbia, aka Cascade Falls, a ghost town
  • Cascade Falls (Kettle River), the eponymous waterfall near Cascade City
  • Cascade Falls (Iskut River), waterfall in the Stikine-Iskut region of British Columbia
  • Cascade Falls Regional Park, located on Cascade Creek northeast of the District of Mission in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia
  • Cascade Inlet, a side-inlet of Dean Channel in the Central Coast region of British Columbia

United States

  • Cascade, California, an unincorporated community in Plumas County
  • Cascade, Colorado
  • Cascade, Idaho
  • Lake Cascade, a reservoir in Idaho
  • Cascade, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  • Cascade, Iowa, a city in Dubuque County and Jones County
  • Cascade Township, Michigan
  • Cascade Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota
  • Cascade, Missouri
  • Cascade, Montana
  • Cascade County, Montana
  • Cascade, Nebraska
  • Cascade, New Hampshire
  • Cascade, Ohio, a former town in Putnam County
  • Cascade Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
  • Cascade, Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Cascade, Seattle, Washington
  • Cascade-Fairwood, Washington, a census-designated place in King County
  • Cascade, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Cascade, Wisconsin, a village in Sheboygan County

Elsewhere

  • Cascade, Jamaica, a settlement in Jamaica
  • Cascade, Seychelles, an administrative district of Seychelles
  • Penpedairheol, Caerphilly, also known as "Cascade", South Wales, United Kingdom

Organizations

  • Cascade Brewery, a brewery founded in 1832 in Australia
  • Cascade Communications, a communications equipment manufacturer
  • Cascade Investment, a financial company
  • Open Cascade, a software development company with head office in France

Arts and entertainment

  • The Cascade, a Canadian newspaper, first published in 1993 in British Columbia
  • Cascade (film), a Canadian thriller film
  • Cascade Films, an Australian film production company owned by Nadia Tass and David Parker

Music

Artists

  • Cascade (band), a Japanese rock group, who formed in 1993
  • Cascade, a former name of the German dance group Cascada
  • Cascade, a British DJ duo also recording under the alias Transa

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  • Cascade, a 1984 album by Capercaillie
  • Cascade, a 1986 album recorded by Terry Oldfield
  • Cascade (Peter Murphy album), a 1995 album by Peter Murphy
  • Cascade (Guy Manning album), a 2001 album by Guy Manning
  • Cascade, a 2009 album by Abaddon Incarnate
  • Cascade (William Basinski album), a 2015 album by William Basinski
  • Cascade (Floating Points album), a 2024 album by Floating Points

Songs

  • "Cascade", a song written by Gene Slone and played by Chet Atkins on his 1977 album Me and My Guitar
  • "Cascade", a song by Spyro Gyra from the 1978 album Spyro Gyra
  • "Cascade", a song by Siouxsie and the Banshees from the 1982 album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
  • Cascade (single), a 1993 single by The Future Sound of London
  • "Cascade", a song by Dave Weckl from the 2005 album Multiplicity
  • "The Cascade", a song by Moving Mountains from the 2011 album Waves
  • "Cascade", a song by Kreidler from the 2012 album Den
  • "Cascades", a song by Metric from the 2015 album Pagans in Vegas

Transportation

  • Cascade (sternwheeler 1864), a steamboat that operated in Oregon
  • Cascade (train), a railroad train
  • USS Cascade (AD-16), a 1942 ship

Other uses

  • Cascade (brand), brand name of dishwashing detergent manufactured by Procter & Gamble
  • Cascade (juggling), a juggling pattern
  • Cascade College, a former college in Oregon, US
  • Cascade hop, an agricultural crop
  • Information cascade, when people use the actions of others as an input to their own actions
  • Jabot (window), also called a cascade, a type of interior decor
  • Yerevan Cascade, known as The Cascade, a building in Yerevan, Armenia

See also

  • Cascada (disambiguation)
  • Cascades (disambiguation)
  • Cascadia (disambiguation)
  • Cascode, a type of amplifier in electronics
  • Collisional cascading (disambiguation)
  • KASCADE, a European physics experiment
  • Kaskade (Ryan Gary Raddon, born 1971), American DJ