n.
- a small waterfall, especially one in a series.
- a mass of something that falls, hangs, or occurs in copious quantities:
a cascade of pink bougainvillea.
- a process by which information or knowledge is passed on successively.
- a succession of devices or stages in a process, each of which triggers or initiates the next.
v.
- pour downwards rapidly and in large quantities.
- pass (information or knowledge) on to a succession of others.
- arrange in a series or sequence.
Etymology
C17: from Fr., from Ital. cascata, from cascare ‘to fall’, based on L. casus (see case1).