{
  "id": "cascade.flow",
  "term": "cascade",
  "sense": "flow",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "domain": "physical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A flow of matter that moves through one place and then another during time.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "flow.movement",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "Flow moves through space over time, and time allows each part of the flow to follow the previous, creating a sequence.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sequential motion",
      "downstream effect"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "motion.movement",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "cascade is a kind of motion"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "cascade",
    "cascaded",
    "cascades",
    "cascading"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cascade.flow"
}