A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice. / A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.

(intransitive) To descend like an avalanche. / (transitive) To come down upon; to overwhelm. / (transitive) To propel downward like an avalanche.

plural of avalanche

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avalanche

simple past tense and past participle of avalanche

present participle of avalanche

plural of avalanche effect

The process in which a number of free electrons in a transmission medium are subjected to strong acceleration by an electric field and subsequently collide with other atoms of the medium, thereby ionizing them and releasing additional electrons which further the process.

plural of electron avalanche

(cryptography) A property of some cipher systems in which a small change in the input results in a very large change in the output.