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causation

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noun

The definition of causation means making something occur, or being the underlying reason why something happened.
When a car is speeding and it leads to an accident, speeding is an example of causation.

causation

noun

the act of causing
a causal agency; anything producing an effect
causality

causation

noun

The act or process of causing.
A cause.
Causality.

causation

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural causations)

The act of causing.
The act or agency by which an effect is produced.

Origin

From cause +‎ -ation

causation - Legal Definition

n

The act of causing or producing an effect or a result. See also chain of causation, causality, and cause.

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The third consideration is the degree to which we apprehend that endless chain of causation inevitably demanded by reason, in which each phenomenon comprehended, and therefore man's every action, must have its definite place as a result of what has gone before and as a cause of what will follow.
(3) However accessible may be the chain of causation of any action, we shall never know the whole chain since it is endless, and so again we never reach absolute inevitability.
London: Pharmaceutical Press Trautner EM (1949) A contribution to the causation of atropine allergy.
The targeted population public coverage increased causation of disease to health care.
These results do not by themselves prove causation of cancer, rather they show relevant bio-effects in certain susceptible subsets of the population.

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