cascade

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The triggering event for the next round of this cascade is the downgrade of the monolines and the ensuing sharp drop in equity markets; both will trigger margin calls and further credit disintermediation.

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  1. noun A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks.
  2. noun Something, such as lace, thought to resemble a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, especially an arrangement or fall of material.
  3. noun A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.
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  • [W] ith regard to the blood-clotting cascade, Dr. Miller demonstrated that the alleged irreducible complexity of the bloodclotting cascade has been disproven by peer-reviewed studies dating back to 1969, which show that dolphins 'and whales' blood clots despite missing a part of the cascade, a study that was confirmed by molecular testing in —  Evolution News & Views
  • The triggering event for the next round of this cascade is the downgrade of the monolines and the ensuing sharp drop in equity markets; both will trigger margin calls and further credit disintermediation. —  Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas
  • PFEP, as well as the cascade area, remains under Agency containment and surveillance. —  ArmsControlWonk
  • Thrombin is an essential component of the coagulation cascade, which is activated in ICH. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The middle kinase in the cascade is a MAP / extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) kinase or MEK family member and is highly specific for its MAP kinase target. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. French, from Italian cascata, from cascare, to fall, from Vulgar Latin *casicāre, from Latin cadere; see kad- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French cascade = Spanish cascada = Portuguese cascata, from Italian cascata, a waterfall, from cascare, fall, apparently associated in thought with L. cadere, past participle casus, fall, but prob. (like Spanish cascar, break in pieces, beat, strike, = Portuguese cascar, strike) an extension of Latin casare, cassare, variant of quassare, shake, shatter, shiver, freq. of quatere, past participle quassum, shake: see quash, concuss, discuss, etc. Cf. cascalho, cascarilla, cask, casque, etc.
  2. from cascade, n.
  3. apparently a perverted use of cascade. Cf. English dial. cast, vomit.
 

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