English Explanatory Dictionary

ripple effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.

Word forms

ripple effect ripple effects

Etymology

An analogy to the spreading ripples on a body of water after an object has struck the surface.

Related words

butterfly effect domino effect knock-on effect

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