cascade : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cascade	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for cascade
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cascade n a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes" a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks" Synonym(s): shower, cascade v rush down in big quantities, like a cascade [syn: cascade, cascade down] arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cascade \Cas*cade"\, n. [F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to ball.] A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. --Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. --Cawper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cascade \Cas*cade"\, v. i. 1. To fall in a cascade. --Lowell. 2. To vomit. [Slang] --Smollett.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Cascade, IA (city, FIPS 11305) Location: 42.29906 N, 91.00985 W Population (1990): 1812 (696 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52033 Cascade, ID (city, FIPS 13150) Location: 44.51302 N, 116.04066 W Population (1990): 877 (478 housing units) Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water) Cascade, MT (town, FIPS 12775) Location: 47.27070 N, 111.70247 W Population (1990): 729 (333 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59421 Cascade, VA Zip code(s): 24069 Cascade, WI (village, FIPS 12825) Location: 43.65942 N, 88.00851 W Population (1990): 620 (220 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53011 Cascade, WV Zip code(s): 26542
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
cascade n. 1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output produced by a compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as a missing `)' or `}') throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. 2. A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an {include war} in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
cascade 1. A huge volume of spurious error-messages output by a {compiler} with poor {error recovery}. Too frequently, one trivial {syntax} error (such as a missing ")" or "}") throws the {parser} out of synch so that much of the remaining program text, whether correct or not, is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. 2. A chain of {Usenet} followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an {include war} in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito. 3. A collection of interconneced networking devices, typically {hub}s, that allows those devices to act together as a {logical} {repeater}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-07-17)