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causal

adj
/ˈkɔː.zəl/UK/ˈkɔ.zəl/US/ˈkɑ.zəl/

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin causalis, from Latin causa (“cause”), equivalent to cause + -al, see cause.

  1. derived from causa
  2. borrowed from causalis

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or being a cause of something

    Of, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing.

    • There is no causal relationship between eating carrots and seeing in the dark.
    • Time changes attitudes, and while Hart's actions in driving when not fit to do so were certainly in the causal chain of the Great Heck accident, how many other drivers were out there driving when too fatigued to do so?

  2. A word (such as because) that expresses a reason or a cause.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at causal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at causal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at causal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA