ripple effect
Chain of impacts
A ripple effect is a spreading series of consequences from a single event, like ripples expanding outward when a stone drops into water.
The term emphasizes how one action triggers further effects that extend beyond the initial impact: The factory closure had a ripple effect throughout the local economy.
Often used for unintended or unforeseen consequences.
- chain reactionSelf-sustaining causal sequence
- waveOscillating motion through medium
- ramificationSecondary consequence of action
- consequenceResult of an action
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
propagation · dispersion · aftermath · social contagion · interconnectedness · cascade · systemic change · network effects · pebble · impact · feedback loop · slippery slope · overspreading · causality · pond · drop · spillover · trickle down
- Indirect Effectssecondhand smoke, passive smoking, collateral damage, spillover, chain reaction
- cascadesfalls, flow, pour, torrent, rush
- connectionslink, links, connect, connection, tie
- consequencesconsequence, consequences, result, results, outcome
- effectsconsequence, result, special effects, outcome, sound effects
- logic puzzlessudoku, skyscraper, tapa, cave, corral
ripple effectcontainment
Preventing hostile expansion
dead end · firebreak · circuit breaker · quarantine · damping
ripple effectisolation
Complete separation from others
compartmentalization · siloing · disconnection · independence · atomization
effect, ripple, ripped, rippling, rippled, ripples, ripper, unrippled