| NOUN | phenomenon | domino effect | the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall / fall) |
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| Meaning | The consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall / fall). | |
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| Broader | consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot | A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon |
| Usage of | trope, figure of speech, figure, image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
| Spanish | efecto dominó | |
| Catalan | efecte dòmino | |
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