Cascade

See also: Cascades (disambiguation)

Cascade, Cascades, or Cascading may refer to:

Science and technology

Natural sciences

• A waterfall or series of waterfalls
• Cascade (upper case) a CRISPR-associated functional complex of DNA-targeting proteins
• Biochemical cascade, a series of biochemical reactions, in which a product of the previous step is the substrate of the next.

Computer science

• Cascading classifiers, a multistage classification scheme
• Cascading (software), an abstraction layer for Hadoop
• Cascade virus, a computer virus
• Cascade Server, a web content management system

Engineering

• Cascade amplifier
• Cascade (chemical engineering), a series of chemical processes
• Cascade storage system for gasses
• CASCADE Project, ICT for Energy Efficient Airports

Social science

• Information cascade, when people use the actions of others as an input to their own actions

Places

Australia

• Cascade, Western Australia
• Cascade, Norfolk Island, a site considered by some to be a settlement, in the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island
• Cascades, Tasmania

Hong Kong

• One of the public housing estates in Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong

North America

• Cascade Range, a mountain range on the west coast of North America
• Cascades (ecoregion), a government-defined environment area

Canada

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

United States

• Cascade, California
• Cascade, Colorado
• Cascade, Idaho
• Cascade, Iowa
• Cascade Township, Michigan
• Cascade Township, Minnesota
• Cascade, Missouri
• Cascade, Montana
• Cascade, Nebraska
• Cascade, New Hampshire
• Cascade, Ohio
• Cascade Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
• Cascade, Virginia
• Cascade, Seattle, Washington
• Cascade-Fairwood, Washington, a census-designated place in King County
• Cascade, West Virginia
• Cascade, Wisconsin
• Cascade, Georgia, an area in southwest Atlanta

Elsewhere

• Cascade, Jamaica
• Cascade, Seychelles
• Penpedairheol, Caerphilly, South Wales, United Kingdom

Organizations

• Cascade Brewery, a brewer
• Cascade College, a school
• Cascade Communications, a communications equipment manufacturer
• Cascade Investments LLC, a financial company
• Cascade Lacrosse, a sports manufacturer
• Cascades (company), a paper pulp company
• Open Cascade, a software development company with head office in France

Music

• Cascade (band), a Japanese rock group
• Cascade (Peter Murphy album), 1995 alternative rock recording
• Cascade (Guy Manning album), 2001 progressive rock recording
• "Cascade" (song), a 1993 electronica single by Future Sound of London
• A song by Moving Mountains from the 2011 album Waves (Moving Mountains album)
• An album by Scottish band Capercaillie (band)
• An album by Irish band Abaddon Incarnate
• Former name of the German dance group Cascada
• Transa, a DJ duo

Other

• The Cascade, a newspaper
• Cascade (juggling), a juggling pattern
• Cascade (train), a railroad train
• USS Cascade (AD-16), a ship
• Cascade hops, an agricultural crop
• Cascade (grape), a type of fruit
• Jabot (window), a type of interior decor

See also

• The Cascades (disambiguation)
• KASCADE
• Kaskade
• Cascada (disambiguation)
• Cascade Falls (disambiguation)