snowball effect
snowball effect · snowball effects
эффект снежного кома
Schneeballeffekt
An accelerating growth of magnitude, including fame, fortune, importance, or dangerAn accelerating growth of magnitude, including fame, fortune, importance, or danger.
Meaning
1 senses(idiomatic)An accelerating growth of magnitude, including fame, fortune, importance, or danger.
The success of these women has had the snowball effect of bringing more and more women into the sport over the past few years.
Schneeballeffekt
эффе́кт сне́жного ко́маeffékt snéžnovo kóma
Translations
6 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
accelerating growth:
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Origin
By analogy to a snowball that accumulates mass at an increasing rate as it rolls, therebyBy analogy to a snowball that accumulates mass at an increasing rate as it rolls, thereby accelerating its growth.
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Forms
plural: snowball effects| Singular | snowball effect |
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