meaning of cascade

1. A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
2. To fall in a cascade.
3. To vomit.
4. cascade 1. A huge volume of spurious error-messages output by a compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax error such as a missing "" or "" throws the 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. [Jargon File]

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