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Cascade system

A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the secondary circuit of the other the primary circuit of the latter being connected to the source of supply also a system of electric traction in which motors so connected are employed The cascade system is also called tandem system or concatenated system the connection a cascade connection tandem connection or concatenated connection or a concatenation and the control of the motors so obtained a tandem control or concatenation control...


Cascade

A fall of water over a precipice as in a river or brook a waterfall less than a cataract...


Cascade method

A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable and so on...


Rapid

The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness but without actual waterfall or cascade sometimes called whitewater usually used in the plural as the Lachine rapids in the St Lawrence...


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