# Cascade

Cascade, or Cascading may refer to:

## Science and technology
### Science

* Air shower (physics), a cascade (particle shower) of subatomic particles and ionized nuclei
** Particle shower, a cascade of secondary particles produced as the result of a high-energy particle interacting with dense matter
* Cascade, the CRISPR-associated complex for antiviral defense (a protein complex)
* Cascade (grape), a type of fruit
* Cascade waterfalls, or series of waterfalls
* Biochemical cascade, a series of biochemical reactions, in which a product of the previous step is the substrate of the next
* Collision cascade, a set of nearby adjacent energetic collisions of atoms induced by an energetic particle in a solid or liquid
* Ecological cascade, a series of secondary extinctions triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem
* Energy cascade, a process important in turbulent flow and drag by which kinetic energy is converted into heat
* Trophic cascade, an interaction that can occur throughout an ecosystem when a trophic level is suppressed

### Computing

* Cascade (computer virus), a type of computer virus in the 1980s
* Cascading (software), an abstraction layer for Hadoop
* Cascading classifiers, a multistage classification scheme
* Cascading deletion, a way to handle deletions in database systems
* Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), style sheet language used in markup languages like HTML
* Method cascading, in object-oriented languages

### Engineering

* Cascade (chemical engineering), a series of chemical processes
* Cascade amplifier, any two-port network constructed from a series of amplifiers
* Cascade connection, a type of electrical network connection
** Cascade motor connection, a speed control system for induction motor
* Cascade failure, a mode of failure in which the loss of one interlinked network node causes the overload of others
* Cascade filling system, for gases

## Places

* Cascade Creek (disambiguation)
* Cascade Falls (disambiguation)
* Cascade Lake (disambiguation)
* Cascade Range, a mountain range on the west coast of North America
* Cascade River (disambiguation)
* Cascades (disambiguation)

### Australia

* Cascade, Norfolk Island, a settlement in the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island
* Cascade, Western Australia

### Canada

* Cascade City, British Columbia, aka Cascade Falls, a ghost town
* Cascade Falls (Kettle River), the eponymous waterfall near Cascade City
* Cascade Falls (Iskut River), waterfall in the Stikine-Iskut region of British Columbia
* Cascade Falls Regional Park, located on Cascade Creek northeast of the District of Mission in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia
* Cascade Inlet, a side-inlet of Dean Channel in the Central Coast region of British Columbia

### United States

* Cascade, California, an unincorporated community in Plumas County
* Cascade, Colorado
* Cascade, Idaho
* Lake Cascade, a reservoir in Idaho
* Cascade, Indiana, an unincorporated community
* Cascade, Iowa, a city in Dubuque County and Jones County
* Cascade Township, Michigan
* Cascade Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota
* Cascade, Missouri
* Cascade, Montana
* Cascade County, Montana
* Cascade, Nebraska
* Cascade, New Hampshire
* Cascade, Ohio, a former town in Putnam County
* Cascade Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
* Cascade, Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Cascade, Seattle, Washington
* Cascade-Fairwood, Washington, a census-designated place in King County
* Cascade, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Cascade, Wisconsin, a village in Sheboygan County

### Elsewhere

* Cascade, Jamaica, a settlement in Jamaica
* Cascade, Seychelles, an administrative district of Seychelles
* Penpedairheol, Caerphilly, also known as "Cascade", South Wales, United Kingdom

## Organizations

* Cascade Brewery, a brewery founded in 1832 in Australia
* Cascade Communications, a communications equipment manufacturer
* Cascade Investment, a financial company
* Open Cascade, a software development company with head office in France

## Arts and entertainment

* The Cascade, a Canadian newspaper, first published in 1993 in British Columbia
* Cascade (film), a Canadian thriller film
* Cascade Films, an Australian film production company owned by Nadia Tass and David Parker

### Music
#### Artists

* Cascade (band), a Japanese rock group, who formed in 1993
* Cascade, a former name of the German dance group Cascada
* Cascade, a British DJ duo also recording under the alias Transa

#### Albums

* Cascade, a 1984 album by Capercaillie
* Cascade, a 1986 album recorded by Terry Oldfield
* Cascade (Peter Murphy album), a 1995 album by Peter Murphy
* Cascade (Guy Manning album), a 2001 album by Guy Manning
* Cascade, a 2009 album by Abaddon Incarnate
* Cascade (William Basinski album), a 2015 album by William Basinski
* Cascade (Floating Points album), a 2024 album by Floating Points

#### Songs

* "Cascade", a song written by Gene Slone and played by Chet Atkins on his 1977 album Me and My Guitar
* "Cascade", a song by Spyro Gyra from the 1978 album Spyro Gyra
* "Cascade", a song by Siouxsie and the Banshees from the 1982 album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
* Cascade (single), a 1993 single by The Future Sound of London
* "Cascade", a song by Dave Weckl from the 2005 album Multiplicity
* "The Cascade", a song by Moving Mountains from the 2011 album Waves
* "Cascade", a song by Kreidler from the 2012 album Den
* "Cascades", a song by Metric from the 2015 album Pagans in Vegas

## Transportation

* Cascade (sternwheeler 1864), a steamboat that operated in Oregon
* Cascade (train), a railroad train
* USS Cascade (AD-16), a 1942 ship

## Other uses

* Cascade, brand name of dishwashing detergent manufactured by Procter & Gamble
* Cascade (juggling), a juggling pattern
* Cascade College, a former college in Oregon, US
* Cascade hop, an agricultural crop
* Information cascade, when people use the actions of others as an input to their own actions
* Jabot (window), also called a cascade, a type of interior decor
* Yerevan Cascade, known as The Cascade, a building in Yerevan, Armenia