0 the situation in which something, usually something bad, happens, causing other similar events to happen
1 the situation in which one event causes a series of related events, one following another:
The signing of the protocol has had a domino effect.
They are intertwined and have a domino effect on the lives of the people.
That will have a domino effect throughout the component sector.
There is a domino effect when people start to commit fraud.
If the domino effect is to start at 16 years and continue through to 21 years, the result will be immensely counter-productive and unintended.
How real was the anxiety over a domino effect rolling in from the rebellious satellites?
The intuition is that there must be situations where one accentuation error leads to another, so that we observe some sort of 'domino effect'.
In fact, if a large firm goes bankrupt, the aggregate output loss is significant, bad debt spreads through a domino effect and propagates the shock.
