domino effect

Etymology
An allusion to a row of dominoes in which the fall of one leads to a cascade of falling pieces.

Noun

 * 1) The situation in which one event sets off a chain of additional events.
 * 2)  The theory that, if South Vietnam became communist, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, additional Southeast Asian countries, other Asian countries, and likely even elsewhere.
 * 1)  The theory that, if South Vietnam became communist, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, additional Southeast Asian countries, other Asian countries, and likely even elsewhere.

Translations

 * Arabic: تأثير الدومينو
 * Armenian: դոմինոյի սկզբունք
 * Azerbaijani: domino effekti
 * Basque: domino-efektu
 * Bengali: ডমিনো ইফেক্ট
 * Catalan: efecte dòmino
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 多米諾效應, 多米諾骨牌效應
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: dominoeffekt
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: doominoefekt
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: efecto dominó
 * Georgian: დომინოს ეფექტი, დომინოს პრინციპი
 * German:
 * Greek: φαινόμενο ντόμινο (fainómeno ntómino)
 * Hebrew: אפקט הדומינו
 * Hungarian: dominóhatás
 * Indonesian: efek domino
 * Italian: effetto domino
 * Japanese: ドミノ効果
 * Malay: kesan domino
 * Norwegian: dominoeffekt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: efect domino
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: efecto dominó
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: принцип доміно
 * Uzbek: domino effekti
 * Vietnamese: hiệu ứng domino


 * Finnish: dominoteoria
 * Georgian: დომინოს თეორია
 * German:
 * Greek: φαινόμενο ντόμινο (fainómeno ntómino)
 * Spanish: teoría del dominó
 * Turkish: domino kuramı