causation
1 of 1noun/kɔˈzeɪʃən/
Forms:causations
1
the action or process of causing a particular thing
- The study focused on the causation of climate change by human activities.
- The detective sought evidence of causation to solve the mysterious crime.
- Establishing causation between smoking and lung cancer requires extensive research.
- The causation of the software malfunction was traced back to a coding error.
- Scientists debated the causation of the observed environmental changes.
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