cascading

Verb

cascade (third-person singular simple present cascades, present participle cascading, simple past and past participle cascaded)

1. (intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
   • Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below...2020 August 26, “Network News: Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery”, in Rail, page 21
2. (transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
   • No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.2001, Greg M Perry, Sams teach yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 24 hours
3. (intransitive) To occur as a causal sequence.
   • Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy.2003, Adam Freeman, Allen Jones, Programming .NET Security
4. (transitive) To pass (something) down through a chain or system in a flow or series of movements.
   • Relief arrived at Cardiff Canton depot on 1 September in the shape of the first of 12 Class 170 units cascaded from Greater Anglia.2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87
5. (archaic, slang) To vomit.
   • Then he began to choke. The next thing I knew, he cascaded onto my new carpet.2011, Amanda Quick, With This Ring

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