Definition of causal in English:
causal
adjective ˈkɔːz(ə)lˈkɔzəl
1Relating to or acting as a cause.
the causal factors associated with illness
Example sentencesExamples
- It implies a causal connection: you behaved like this and that was the result.
- There can be no causal connection between the two events, yet we experience their conjunction as meaningful.
- However, Mr Cakebread told the court his clients believed there was a causal link between DVT and air travel.
- There is no simple causal connection between uncertainty and economic weakness.
- In some cases it seems that mental illness is a factor on the causal pathway between social position and suicide.
- It is well established that this may be awarded in appropriate cases but a proper causal connection must be demonstrated.
- Passive smoking is now recognised as a causal factor in the onset of smoke-related illness.
- It looks to see if there is a causal link or a causal connection.
- Obesity is a causal factor in many serious conditions that affect the entire human body.
- Some defect in the regulation of the brain chemical serotonin, is also suspected to be a causal factor.
- The problem can be overcome by using serum cholesterol concentration as an intermediate factor in the causal pathway.
- Archaeologists are extremely cautious about making causal links between contemporaneous events.
- The causal relevance of social factors must be argued on a case-by-case basis.
- I do think that in some cases stress is the causal factor, or the way the patient responds to stress is the problem.
- One of the gold standards in establishing causal relations between two factors is to show the dose dependent relation.
- As a rule, complex social phenomena like racism cannot be explained in terms of a single causal factor.
- This could be down to any number of factors, however, but no causal effect has been proven as regards to the hormone shampoo.
- Alcohol, speed and fatigue have been identified as the leading causal factors.
- The causal strength of various contributing factors would be assessed.
- If you deny that poverty is a causal factor in crime you need to supply an alternative hypothesis.
- 1.1Grammar Logic Expressing or indicating a cause.
Example sentencesExamples
- And Aristotle is surely mistaken in asserting that knowledge is always causal.
- Let us start with the presupposition that causal determinism obtains.
- This subjunctive condition is not unrelated to the causal condition.
- Some have even maintained that causal statements can be analysed in terms of counterfactual conditionals.
- The argument that Cheney did not intend the direct causal inference goes as follows.
Origin
Late Middle English (as a noun denoting a causal conjunction or particle): from late Latin causalis, from Latin causa 'cause'.
Rhymes
acausal, clausal, menopausal, monocausal