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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

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

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, sink, succession, waterfall

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

Encyclopedia: Cascades, VA