Cascade
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A cascade is a waterfall or a series of waterfalls.
Cascade may also refer to:
[edit] Places
[edit] North America
- Cascade Range, a mountain range on the west coast of North America
- Cascade Volcanoes, a grouping of volcanoes on the west coast of North America
[edit] Canada
- Cascade Mountain (Alberta), a mountain located in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park
- Cascade, British Columbia, aka Cascade Falls, a ghost town
[edit] United States
- Communities
- Cascade, Colorado, an unincorporated town in El Paso County
- Cascade-Chipita Park, Colorado, a census-designated place
- Cascade, Idaho, a city in Valley County
- Cascade, Iowa, a city in Dubuque County and Jones County
- Cascade, Montana, a town in Cascade County
- Cascade, New Hampshire, a village within the town of Gorham and the city of Berlin
- Cascade, Seattle, Washington, a small neighborhood abutting downtown Seattle
- Cascade, Wisconsin, a village in Sheboygan County
- Cascade-Fairwood, Washington, a census-designated place in King County
- Cascade Locks, Oregon, a city in Hood River County
- Cascade Township, Michigan, a charter township of Kent County
- Cascade Township, Minnesota, in Olmsted County
- Cascade Township, Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County
- Cascade Valley, Washington, a census-designated place in Grant County
- Other U.S. locations
- 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, a collection of lakes in Oregon
- Cascade Mountain (New York), a mountain in Essex County of New York
- Cascade Park, a Lorain County Metropark in Elyria, Ohio
- Cascade Pass, a mountain pass in Washington
- Cascade Tunnel, a railroad tunnel near Everett, Washington
- Shasta Cascade, a region of northern California
[edit] Seychelles
- Cascade, Seychelles, a district in the Republic of Seychelles
[edit] Australia
- Cascade National Park, a national park in New South Wales
Wales, UK
Cascade, Rhymney Valley,
[edit] Technology
- Ablation cascade, a possible catastrophic orbital event
- Biochemical cascade, a consecutive series of chemical reactions
- Complement cascade or Complement system, a biochemical cascade in the immune system
- MAPK cascade, a process in the action of cancer genes
- Cascade reaction, a consecutive series of chemical reactions within a molecule
- Electron cascade or Electron avalanche, a process in physics
- Quantum cascade laser, a unipolar semiconductor laser
- Event cascade, a problem in event-driven computer programming
- Informational cascade, an economic theory
- Cascading failure, a failure in a system of interconnected parts
- Cascade (chemical engineering), a series of chemical processes
- Cascading rollback, multiple failure after a database rollback
- Cascading Style Sheets specifying the appearance of web information
- Fractional cascading, a data structuring technique for speeding up binary searches
[edit] Organizations
- Boise Cascade, an American pulp and paper company
- Cascade Bicycle Club, a non-profit organization and advocacy group, Seattle, Washington
- Cascade Brewery, a brewer in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Cascade College, a private college in Portland, Oregon
- Cascade Communications, a manufacturer of communications equipment
- Cascade Corporation, a manufacturer of Material Handling Equipment located in Portland, OR
- Cascade Investments LLC, 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, a sports manufacturer
- Cascade Collegiate Conference, a sports conference in the western United States
- Open CASCADE, a software development company with head office in France
- CASCADE, an EU-funded research project, targeting health risks in food
[edit] Music
- Cascade (album), an album by folk rock band Capercaillie
- "Cascade" (song), a single by Future Sound of London
- Cascade (band), a Japanese Visual Kei band
- Another name for German dance group Cascada
[edit] Other
- Cascade Club and Spa[Cascade Club and Spa], premium health club based in Bangkok Thailand
- Cascade converter, a type of motor-generator
- Cascade (juggling), 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), a United States Navy destroyer tender
- A variety of hops found in North America
- Kemble's Cascade, a pattern of stars
- A brand name of detergent by Procter & Gamble
- A variety of Seibel grapes
- Superencryption, or Cascading encryption, when an encrypted message is encrypted again
[edit] See also
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