Ecology

• a type of waterfall
  Waterfall
  A waterfall is a place where flowing water rapidly drops in elevation as it flows over a steep region or a cliff.-Formation:Waterfalls are commonly formed when a river is young. At these times the channel is often narrow and deep. When the river courses over resistant bedrock, erosion happens...
  
    or a series of waterfalls.
• Trophic cascade
  Trophic cascade
  Trophic cascades occur when predators in a food web suppress the abundance of their prey, thereby releasing the next lower trophic level from predation...
  
  , when predators in a food web suppress their prey, releasing the next lower trophic level from predation
• Cascade effect (ecology)
  Cascade effect (ecology)
  An ecological cascade effect is a series of secondary extinctions that is triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem. Secondary extinctions are likely to occur when the threatened species are: dependent on a few specific food sources, mutualistic, or forced to coexist...
  
  , the triggering of series of secondary extinctions

Technology

• Ablation cascade, a possible catastrophic orbital event (see Kessler syndrome
  Kessler syndrome
  The Kessler syndrome , proposed by NASA scientist Donald J...
  
  )
• Biochemical cascade
  Biochemical cascade
  A biochemical cascade is a series of chemical reactions in which the products of one reaction are consumed in the next reaction. There are several important biochemical cascade reactions in biochemistry, including the enzymatic cascades, such as the coagulation cascade and the complement system,...
  
  , a consecutive series of chemical reactions
  • Coagulation
    Coagulation
    Coagulation is a complex process by which blood forms clots. It is an important part of hemostasis, the cessation of blood loss from a damaged vessel, wherein a damaged blood vessel wall is covered by a platelet and fibrin-containing clot to stop bleeding and begin repair of the damaged vessel...
    
     cascade, the process by which the body clots blood
  • Complement cascade or Complement system
    Complement system
    The complement system helps or “complements” the ability of antibodies and phagocytic cells to clear pathogens from an organism. It is part of the immune system called the innate immune system that is not adaptable and does not change over the course of an individual's lifetime...
    
    , a biochemical cascade in the immune system
  • MAPK cascade, a process in the action of cancer genes
• Cascade reaction
  Cascade reaction
  A cascade reaction or tandem reaction or domino reaction is a consecutive series of intramolecular organic reactions which often proceed via highly reactive intermediates. It allows the organic synthesis of complex multinuclear molecules from a single acyclic precursor. The substrate contains many...
  
  , a consecutive series of chemical reactions within a molecule
• Cascading classifiers
  Cascading classifiers
  Cascading is based on the concatenation of several classifiers, using all information collected from the output from a given classifier as additional information for the next classifier in the cascade. Unlike voting or stacking ensembles, which are multiexpert systems, cascading is a multistage...
  
  , a multistage classification scheme
• Electron cascade or Electron avalanche
  Electron avalanche
  An electron avalanche is a process in which a number of free electrons in a medium are subjected to strong acceleration by an electric field, ionizing the medium's atoms by collision , thereby forming "new" electrons to undergo the same process in successive cycles...
  
  , a process in physics
• Event cascade
  Event cascade
  In event-driven computer programs, an event cascade occurs when an event handler causes another event to occur which also triggers an event handler. This can be a tricky source of program errors ....
  
  , a problem in event-driven computer programming
• Information cascade, an economic theory
• Cascading failure
  Cascading failure
  A cascading failure is a failure in a system of interconnected parts in which the failure of a part can trigger the failure of successive parts.- Cascading failure in power transmission :...
  
  , a failure in a system of interconnected parts
• Cascade (chemical engineering)
  Cascade (chemical engineering)
  In chemical engineering, a cascade is a plant consisting of several similar stages with each processing the output from the previous stage. Cascades are most commonly used in isotope separation, distillation and other separation or purification processes....
  
  , a series of chemical processes
• Cascade connection, in systems theory, the connection of the output of one system to the input of another
  • cascade amplifier
    Cascade amplifier
    A cascade amplifier is any amplifier constructed from a series of amplifiers, where each amplifier sends its output to the input of the next amplifier in a daisy chain....
    
    , cascade connected amplifier circuits
• Cascading rollback, multiple failure after a database rollback
• Cascade storage system
• Fractional cascading
  Fractional cascading
  In computer science, fractional cascading is a technique to speed up a sequence of binary searches for the same value in a sequence of related data structures. The first binary search in the sequence takes a logarithmic amount of time, as is standard for binary searches, but successive searches in...
  
  , a data structuring technique for speeding up binary searches
• Cascade (software)
  Cascade (software)
  Cascade is a proprietary software configuration management tool suite developed by Conifer Systems LLC. It includes:* Cascade File System, a file system driver that exposes a Subversion or Perforce repository as a modifiable directory tree in the user's file system.* Cascade Proxy, a proxy server...
  
  , a software configuration management tool suite
• Cascade failure, the failure of one pylon on an overhead power line
  Overhead power line
  An overhead power line is an electric power transmission line suspended by towers or utility poles. Since most of the insulation is provided by air, overhead power lines are generally the lowest-cost method of transmission for large quantities of electric energy...
  
   causing further pylons to fall

Australia

• Cascade National Park
  Cascade National Park
  Cascade is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 431 km northeast of Sydney.Cascade National Park is a beautiful subtropical and warm temperate rainforest, including booyong, crab apple and coach wood trees, surrounding the village of Cascade....
  
  , a national park in New South Wales
• The Cascades, a waterfall in Gloucester National Park
  Gloucester National Park
  Gloucester National Park is a national park in Western Australia , 281 km south of Perth and about 3 km from Pemberton, Western Australia....
  
  
• Cascade, Western Australia
  Cascade, Western Australia
  Cascade is a small town in Western Australia located east of Perth along the South Coast between Ravensthorpe and Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. At the 2006 census, Cascade had a population of 158....
  
  

Canada

• Cascade Mountain (Alberta)
  Cascade Mountain (Alberta)
  Cascade Mountain is a mountain located in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park, adjacent to the town of Banff. The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector after the waterfall or cascade on the southern flanks of the peak. The mountain has also been called Stoney Chief, which is related...
  
  , a mountain located in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park
• Cascade, British Columbia, aka Cascade Falls, a ghost town

Norfolk Island

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

North America

• Cascade Range
  Cascade Range
  The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades...
  
  , a mountain range on the west coast of North America
• Cascade Volcanoes
  Cascade Volcanoes
  The Cascade Volcanoes are a number of volcanoes in a volcanic arc in western North America, extending from southwestern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California, a distance of well over 700 mi ...
  
  , a grouping of volcanoes on the west coast of North America

United States

• Cascade, California
  Cascade, California
  Cascade is an unincorporated community in Plumas County, California. It lies at an elevation of 4055 feet . Cascade is located southwest of Quincy....
  
  , an unincorporated town in Plumas County
• Cascade, Colorado
  Cascade, Colorado
  Cascade is an unincorporated town and U.S. Post Office in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The ZIP Code of the Cascade Post Office is 80809.-History:...
  
  , an unincorporated town in El Paso County
  • Cascade-Chipita Park, Colorado
    Cascade-Chipita Park, Colorado
    Cascade-Chipita Park is a census-designated place in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,655 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Cascade-Chipita Park is located at ....
    
    , a census-designated place
• Cascade, Atlanta, an area in Southwestern Atlanta, Georgia
• Cascade Heights
  Cascade Heights
  Cascade Heights is an affluent predominantly African-American neighborhood in southwest Atlanta. Along with Sandtown and other portions of unincorporated South Fulton County, the area has a reputation as having a high concentration of the African-American elite in the city.Cascade Heights, or...
  
  , a neighborhood in Cascade, Southwestern Atlanta, Georgia
• Cascade, Idaho
  Cascade, Idaho
  Cascade is a rural city in and the county seat of Valley County, Idaho, United States, in the west central part of the state. It sits at an elevation of , along the North Fork of the Payette River...
  
  , a city in Valley County
• Cascade, Iowa
  Cascade, Iowa
  Cascade is a city in Dubuque County and Jones County, Iowa, United States. The Dubuque County portion is part of Dubuque Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Jones County portion is part of Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,958 at the 2000 census, but is now...
  
  , a city in Dubuque County and Jones County
• Cascade, Montana
  Cascade, Montana
  Cascade is a town in Cascade County, Montana, United States. The population was 819 at the 2000 census. It is part of the 'Great Falls, Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area'.-Geography:...
  
  , a town in Cascade County
• Cascade, New Hampshire
  Cascade, New Hampshire
  Cascade is a village within the town of Gorham and the city of Berlin, New Hampshire. The village gets its name from an alpine waterfall which is visible in the hills to the east....
  
  , a village within the town of Gorham and the city of Berlin
• Cascade, Seattle, Washington
  Cascade, Seattle, Washington
  Cascade is a small neighborhood abutting Downtown Seattle, Washington, USA; it constitutes the eastern portion of what has come to be known as South Lake Union...
  
  , a small neighborhood abutting downtown Seattle
• Cascade, Wisconsin
  Cascade, Wisconsin
  Cascade is a village in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 666 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
  , a village in Sheboygan County
• Cascade-Fairwood, Washington
  Cascade-Fairwood, Washington
  Cascade-Fairwood is a census-designated place in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 34,580 at the 2000 census. Based on per capita income Cascade-Fairwood ranks 77th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked....
  
  , a census-designated place in King County
• Cascade Locks, Oregon
  Cascade Locks, Oregon
  Cascade Locks is a city in Hood River County, Oregon, United States. The city took its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The U.S. federal government approved the plan for the locks in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks...
  
  , a city in Hood River County
• Cascade Township, Michigan
  Cascade Township, Michigan
  Cascade Charter Township is a charter township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,107 at the 2000 census.The township is situated in the southeastern section of Kent County, approximately 10 miles southeast of Grand Rapids. A defining feature of the township is the...
  
  , a charter township of Kent County
• Cascade Township, Minnesota
  Cascade Township, Minnesota
  Cascade Township is a township in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,183 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which 17.4 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles is...
  
  , in Olmsted County
• Cascade Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
• Cascade Valley, Washington
  Cascade Valley, Washington
  Cascade Valley is a census-designated place in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,811 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cascade Valley is located at ....
  
  , a census-designated place in Grant County

• 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
  Cascade Lakes
  The Cascade Lakes are a collection of lakes in central Oregon in the United States of America. They include Elk Lake, Hosmer Lake, Lava Lake, Cultus Lake, North and South Twin Lakes, as well as Crane Prairie Reservoir....
  
  , a collection of lakes in Oregon
• Cascade Mountain (New York)
  Cascade Mountain (New York)
  Cascade Mountain is in Essex County of New York. It is one of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks and is located in the Adirondack Park. Its name comes from a series of waterfalls on a brook near the mountain's base...
  
  , a mountain in Essex County of New York
• Cascade Park, a Lorain County Metropark in Elyria, Ohio
  Elyria, Ohio
  -Community:Elyria has an extensive, although financially burdened, community food pantry and "Hot Meals" program administered through the Second Harvest Food Bank and several churches Elyria is served by Elyria Memorial Hospital.-Recreation and parks:...
  
  
• Cascade Pass
  Cascade Pass
  Cascade Pass is a mountain pass over the northern Cascade Range, east of Marblemount, Washington, U.S....
  
  , a mountain pass in Washington
• Cascade Tunnel
  Cascade Tunnel
  The Cascade Tunnel refers to two tunnels at Stevens Pass through the Cascade Mountains, approximately to the east of Everett, Washington. The first Cascade Tunnel was a 2.63-mile long single track railroad, built by the Great Northern Railway in 1900 to avoid problems caused by heavy winter...
  
  , a railroad tunnel near Everett, Washington
• Shasta Cascade
  Shasta Cascade
  The Shasta Cascade region of California is located in the northeastern and north-central sections of the state bordering Oregon and Nevada, including far northern parts of the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The area is centered on Mount Shasta in the California Cascade Range,...
  
  , a region of northern California

Organizations

• Boise Cascade
  Boise Cascade
  Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC, which uses the trade name Boise, is an American pulp and paper company, ranked as the thirteenth largest forest products company in the world....
  
  , an American pulp and paper company
• Cascade Bicycle Club
  Cascade Bicycle Club
  Cascade Bicycle Club is a nonprofit 501 community organization based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest bicycling club in the United States with more than 13,000 members. It is run by unpaid directors, professional staff and volunteers...
  
  , a non-profit organization and advocacy group, Seattle, Washington
• Cascade Brewery
  Cascade Brewery
  Cascade Brewery is the oldest continually operating brewery in Australia. It is based in South Hobart, Tasmania. The Cascade estate was founded beside the clean water of the Hobart Rivulet in 1824 by Peter Degraves, an entrepreneur who emigrated from England...
  
  , a brewer in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Cascade College
  Cascade College
  Cascade College was a private, four-year, liberal arts college associated with the Churches of Christ. Located in Portland, Oregon, United States, it was a branch campus of Oklahoma Christian University. Its mission was to emphasize spiritual growth and career preparation...
  
  , a private college in Portland, Oregon
• Cascade Communications
  Cascade Communications
  Cascade Communications was a Westford, Massachusetts based manufacturer of communications equipment.-Product:Cascade made a compact Frame Relay and Asynchronous Transfer Mode communication switches that were sold to telecommunication service providers worldwide...
  
  , a manufacturer of communications equipment
• Cascade Investments LLC
  Cascade Investments LLC
  Cascade Investment, L.L.C. is an American investment company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, United States. It is controlled by Bill Gates....
  
  , 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
  Cascade Lacrosse
  Cascade is a sports manufacturer based in Liverpool, New York. It manufacturers both youth and men's lacrosse helmets, and women's lacrosse/field hockey eyewear. The company was founded by Bill Brine in 1986. The company lives by the phrase "A Passion to Protect" and prides itself on manufacturing...
  
  , a sports manufacturer
• Cascade Collegiate Conference
  Cascade Collegiate Conference
  The Cascade Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Member schools are located in the Northwestern United States. Its basketball teams compete in Division II, the lower of the two levels of NAIA basketball competition. ...
  
  , a sports conference in the western United States
• Open CASCADE
  Open CASCADE
  Open CASCADE Technology is a software development platform for 3D CAD, CAM, CAE, etc. that is developed and supported by OPEN CASCADE SAS. It is available under the "Open CASCADE Technology Public License" which the developer claims to be . Despite this claim, it is not listed as compatible with...
  
  , a software development company with head office in France

Music

• Cascade (band)
  Cascade (band)
  Cascade is a Japanese visual kei rock band, with a sound not typical of other visual kei bands, in that it is strongly influenced by new wave music. The band formed in 1993 and disbanded in August 2002, but six years later the band reunited and released a new album in 2009, Vivo.Cascade's song...
  
  , a Japanese rock band
• "Cascade" (song)
  Cascade (song)
  "Cascade" is the first single from Future Sound of London's 1994 Lifeforms album. It is a series of variations on the song "Cascade", all different from the album's version as is customary for most FSOL singles.-Track listing:# "Cascade: Part 1"...
  
  , a single by Future Sound of London
• Cascade, an album by Scottish band Capercaillie (band)
  Capercaillie (band)
  Capercaillie is a Scottish folk band, founded in the 1980s by Donald Shaw and fronted by Karen Matheson. They have seen four of their albums placed in the UK Albums Chart, and continue to perform and record to the present day.-History:...
  
  
• Cascade, an album by Irish band Abaddon Incarnate
  Abaddon Incarnate
  Abaddon Incarnate are an Irish blackened deathgrind band.-History:Abaddon Incarnate was formed in Dublin in 1991, playing fast death metal with grindcore elements. Under the name Bereaved the band released two demo cassette tapes, Signs of Death in 1992 and Tortured Souls in 1994...
  
  
• Cascade,an album by Peter Murphy (musician)
  Peter Murphy (musician)
  Peter John Murphy is an English rock vocalist. He was the vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus, and later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Deep and Love Hysteria...
  
  
• Former name of the German dance group Cascada
  Cascada
  Cascada is a German Eurodance act most famous for their hit singles "Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", and "Evacuate the Dancefloor"...
  
  
• Alias of the DJ duo Transa
  Transa
  Transa is a British EDM production/DJ unit, composed of the brothers Dave and Brenden Webster. They have produced mostly trance music over their career, but have slipped into the realm of progressive house on occasion....
  
  

Other

• The Cascade
  The Cascade
  The Cascade is the University of the Fraser Valley's student-run paper, with offices located on the university's campus in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. While the paper's current era as The Cascade began in 1993, it began publication in the 1970s, under different names that could last for...
  
  , a student newspaper
  Student newspaper
  A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....
  
   located in Abbotsford
  Abbotsford
  Abbotsford may refer to a place in:Australia* Abbotsford, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia* Abbotsford, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, AustraliaCanada* Abbotsford, British Columbia, a city in Canada...
  
  , British Columbia
  British Columbia
  British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
  
  
• Cascade converter
  Cascade converter
  A Cascade Converter is a type of motor-generator which was patented in 1902 by J. L. la Cour and O. S. Bragstad.It consists of an induction motor driving a dynamo through a shaft...
  
  , a type of motor-generator
• Cascade (juggling)
  Cascade (juggling)
  In juggling, a cascade is the simplest pattern achievable with an odd number of props. The simplest cascade is the three-ball cascade. This is therefore the first pattern that most jugglers learn.-Three-ball cascade:...
  
  , 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)
  USS Cascade (AD-16)
  USS Cascade , the only ship of its class, was a destroyer tender in the United States Navy.Originally designed as a passenger-freighter, the Cascade was launched on 6 June 1942 by Western Pipe and Steel Company in San Francisco, California. The ship was sponsored by Mrs. Charles W. Crosse, wife of...
  
  , a United States Navy destroyer tender
• Cascade hops
  Cascade hops
  Cascade is one of the many varieties of hops. Cascade hops are the most widely used hops by craft breweries in the USA.-History:Cascade is a variety of hop developed in the U.S.D.A. breeding program in Oregon at Oregon State University and released as a U.S. aroma variety in 1972...
  
  , a variety of hops found in North America
• Kemble's Cascade
  Kemble's Cascade
  Kemble's Cascade , located in the constellation Camelopardalis, is an asterism — a pattern created by unrelated stars. It is an apparent straight line of more than 20 colorful 5th to 10th magnitude stars over a distance of approximately five moon diameters, and the open cluster NGC 1502 can be...
  
  , a pattern of stars
• Cascade (detergent), a brand name of detergent by Procter & Gamble
  Procter & Gamble
  Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....
  
  
• A variety of Seibel grapes
  Seibel grapes
  Seibel grapes are a group of wine grape varieties which originated with the work of Albert Seibel. They were planted widely in France during the 1950s but have seen decline in recent years due to French wine law banning the cultivation of hybrid grapes for appellation wine. The grapes are still...
  
  
• Superencryption
  Superencryption
  Multiple encryption is the process of encrypting an already encrypted message one or more times, either using the same or a different algorithm. The terms cascade encryption, cascade ciphering, multiple encryption, multiple ciphering, and superencipherment are used with the same meaning...
  
  , or Cascading encryption, when an encrypted message is encrypted again
• Golden Cascade
  Golden Cascade
  The Golden Cascade is a breed of domestic duck developed in the United States. In 1979, David Holderread of Corvallis, Oregon set out to breed a duck that was fast growing, active, laid eggs well, and was auto-sexing. By the mid-1980s, the Golden Cascade was introduced to the market...
  
  , a breed of duck

See also

• Cascade Falls (disambiguation)
• Cascades (disambiguation)
  Cascades (disambiguation)
  * Cascade Range, a mountain range in the Pacific Northwest, spanning the border between Canada and the United States and as far south as California...