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Noun cascade has 3 senses

cascade - a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
--₁ is a kind of range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains; waterfall, falls; range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains; waterfall, falls
--₁ is a part of
Northwest, northwestern United States; Coast Range, Coast Mountains
--₁ has parts:
Mount Saint Helens, Mount St. Helens, Mt. St. Helens; Adams, Mount Adams; Ranier, Mount Ranier, Mt. Ranier, Mount Tacoma

Derived form: verb cascade₁
cascade - 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"
--₂ is a kind of succession; succession
shower, cascade - 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"
--₃ is a kind of descent; descent

Verb cascade has 2 senses

cascade, cascade down - rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
--₁ is one way to descend, fall, go down, come down

Derived form: noun cascade₁
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
cascade - arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
--₂ is one way to arrange, set up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something