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单词 causation
释义 cau·sa·tion
\kȯˈzāshən\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Medieval Latin causation-, causatio, from causatus (past participle of causare to cause, from Latin causa) + Latin -ion-, -io -ion
1.
 a. : the act or process of causing
  < scientific causation means that nothing happens arbitrarily but always as the result of a definite chain of causes — H.P.Becker >
 b. : the act or agency by which an effect is produced
  < in a complex situation causation is likely to be multiple — W.O.Aydelotte >
2. : the relation of cause and effect : causality
 < the law of causation … is but the familiar truth that invariability of succession is found by observation to obtain between every fact in nature and some other fact which has preceded it — J.S.Mill >
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