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efficient cause
efficient cause n (Philosophy) philosophy that which produces an effect by a causal process. Compare final cause See also cause7 Efficient Cause Related to Efficient Cause: Final cause, Formal cause, Material causeEfficient CauseThat which actually precipitates an accident or injury. The term efficient cause is frequently used interchangeably with proximate cause—the immediate act in the production of a particular effect—or the cause that sets the others in operation. |