cascading
adj.
graded; flowing out, pouring out
cascade
v.
fall, pour out, flow (as in a waterfall)
Cascade
cascade
Noun
1. a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
(hypernym) waterfall, falls
(derivation) cascade down
2. a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"
(hypernym) succession
3. a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks"
(synonym) shower
(hypernym) descent
Verb
1. rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
(synonym) cascade down
(hypernym) descend, fall, go down, come down
2. arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
(hypernym) arrange, set up
(classification) computer science, computing
cascade
1. <
compiler> A huge volume of spurious error-messages output by a
compiler with poor
error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial
parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text, whether correct or not, is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed.
2. A chain of
Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an
include war in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito.
3. A collection of interconneced networking devices, typically
hubs, that allows those devices to act together as a
logical repeater.
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Jargon File]
(1997-07-17)
(c) Copyright 1993 by Denis Howe
Cascading
The continuing flow of the quality message down to, not through, the next level of supervision until it reaches all workers. Same concept as "deploying."