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What is a domino effect?

What is a domino effect? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (figuratively) The situation in which one event sets off a chain of additional events.
  2. (politics) The theory that, if South Vietnam fell to Communism, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, and additional South Asian countries.
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Critics who have long been calling for a tuition freeze say this would have a domino effect in the province and cause other schools to follow suit.
And if it continues it will have a domino effect with all the other airlines.
And then it's like a domino effect, and it starts spreading throughout the world.
If deliveries and installations fall behind, the domino effect will cause your entire project to be delayed.
But, generally, when one of the game's top personalities and its finest coach expresses an opinion, it tends to have a domino effect.
It is the domino effect or the ripple effect, whichever you choose.

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