Meaning & use
cascading
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falling or flowing in stages, like a series of small waterfalls; also used figuratively for a chain of effects that follow one another.
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Cascading waterfalls tumbled down the mountainside in a series of steps.
A single server outage triggered a cascading failure across the whole network.
A note on using this word
Frequently used figuratively in technology and business writing to describe one problem or effect triggering a chain of others.
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flowingsuccessive
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