Causal



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj.原因的, 因果关系的
• ［英］ adj.原因的, 因果关系的 ( implying a cause-and-effect relationship)
• ［同］ 近形词: casual ( adj. 偶然的) 派生词: causality ( n. 因果关系relationship between cause and effect)

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Date: circa 1530
• 1. expressing or indicating cause ; causative causal clause introduced by since
• 2. of, relating to, or constituting a cause <the causal agent of a disease
• 3. involving causation or a cause <the relationship…was not one of causal antecedence so much as one of analogous growth — H. O. Taylor
• 4. arising from a cause causal development
• ? causally adverb

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