cascade

/kæsˈkeɪd/noun

A waterfall, or a chain of small waterfalls flowing one after another.

Example sentence

“We hiked upstream until we reached a beautiful cascade.”

Now common as a verb for anything flowing in stages: hair cascades down a back, and failures cascade through a system.

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