causal link

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• causal — caus·al / kȯ zəl/ adj 1: of, relating to, or constituting a cause causal negligence 2: involving causation or a cause no causal relationship between driving without insurance and the accident National Law Journal a causal link exists between the …   Law dictionary

• Causal loop diagram — A causal loop diagram(CLD) is a diagram that aids in visualizing how interrelated variables affect one another. The diagram consists of a set of nodes representing the variables connected together. The relationships between these variables,… …   Wikipedia

• link — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 connection ADJECTIVE ▪ close, tight ▪ inextricable, strong ▪ tenuous, weak ▪ clear …   Collocations dictionary

• causal theory of meaning — The view that the link between words and the world, whereby words mean what they do, is a causal link. The theory is aired in Kripke s Naming and Necessity for the special case of proper names. A plausible way of thinking of the link between the… …   Philosophy dictionary

• causal — caus|al [ kɔzl ] adjective * 1. ) FORMAL if there is a causal connection or relationship between two events, one event causes the other: They long ago established a causal link between smoking and lung cancer. 2. ) LINGUISTICS a causal… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• causal — [[t]kɔ͟ːz(ə)l[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n If there is a causal relationship between two things, one thing is responsible for causing the other thing. [FORMAL] Rawlins stresses that it is impossible to prove a causal link between the drug and the deaths …   English dictionary

• causal */ — UK [ˈkɔːz(ə)l] / US [ˈkɔz(ə)l] adjective 1) formal if there is a causal connection or relationship between two events, one event causes the other They long ago established a causal link between smoking and lung cancer. 2) linguistics a causal… …   English dictionary

• Causal set theory bibliography — Main article: Causal Sets This Causal Set Theory Bibliography is intended to aid causal set research. It gathers together academic papers, books, talks and PhD theses related to causal set theory and is intended to help readers find references… …   Wikipedia

• Causal sets — The causal sets programme is an approach to quantum gravity. Its founding principle is that spacetime is fundamentally discrete and that the spacetime points are related by a partial order. This partial order has the physical meaning of the… …   Wikipedia

• causal — caus|al [ˈko:zəl US ˈko: ] adj 1.) relating to the connection between two things, where one causes the other to happen or exist →↑cause causal relationship/link/factor etc ▪ a causal relationship between unemployment and crime 2.) technical a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• causal — adjective 1 causal relationship/link/connection etc a relationship etc that exists between two or more events or situations, where one causes the other to happen: a causal relationship between unemployment and crime 2 technical a causal… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English