chain reaction
8 synonyms found
- chain of circumstances
- chapter of accidents
- concatenation of events
- feast and famine
- ins and outs
- vicissitudes
- vicissitudes of fortune
- windrow
Definition
(n) :
a nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms; a series of events, each one causing the next
"the Manhattan Project produced the first recorded controlled chain reaction."