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causations

causations is the plural of causation.

Meaning of causation

Noun

causation (countable and uncountable, plural causations)

  1. The act of causing.
  2. The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
    • Aristotle's views led him to try to describe the kind of causation by which vision is produced, instead of the laws by which it is exercised; and the attempt consisted, as in other subjects, of indistinct principles, and ill-combined facts.1837, William Whewell, “Earliest Stages of Optics”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge...
  3. Cause and effect.
    Synonyms:
    causality

Questions about causations

What is causations the plural of?
Causations is the plural of causation.

Words near causations in the dictionary

  1. causation
  2. causational
  3. causationism
  4. causationist
  5. causationists
  6. causations
  7. causative
  8. causative verb
  9. causative verbs
  10. causatively
  11. causativeness

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