snowball effect

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Etymology

By analogy with the way a snowball collects the more snow in one turn the larger it is, as it rolls down a hillside.

Noun

snowball effect (plural snowball effects)

1. 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.

Translations

accelerating growth

• Finnish: lumipalloefekti (fi)
• Russian: эффект снежного кома (ru) (effékt snéžnovo kóma) m 

• Turkish: kar topu etkisi (tr)

See also

• exponential growth
• domino effect
• slippery slope