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Noun: Cascades
  1. A mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range
    - Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains
Noun: cascade  kas'keyd
  1. A small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
     
  2. A succession of stages, operations, processes or units
    "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"
     
  3. A sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower
    "a sudden cascade of sparks";
    - shower
Verb: cascade  kas'keyd
  1. Rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
    - cascade down
     
  2. (computing) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible

Type of: arrange, chain, chain of mountains, come down, descend, descent, fall, falls, go down, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains, set up, succession, waterfall

Part of: Coast Mountains, Coast Range, Northwest, northwestern United States

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