Causation

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  • noun. The act or process of causing.
  • noun. A cause.
  • noun. Causality.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of causing or producing; the principle of causality; the relation of cause to effect, or of effect to cause.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
  • noun. the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
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  • noun. the act of causing something to happen