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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
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
causation
n : the act of causing something to happen [syn: {causing}]
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