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English Dictionary: causation by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
causation
n
  1. the act of causing something to happen [syn: causing, causation]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Causation \Cau*sa"tion\, n.
      The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect
      is produced.
  
               The kind of causation by which vision is produced.
                                                                              --Whewell.
  
      {Law of universal causation}, the theoretical or asserted law
            that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the
            sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being
            present, the other is certain to take place.
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