causal process

collocation in English

meaningsofcausalandprocess

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causal
adjective
uk
/ˈkɔː.zəl/
us
/ˈkɑː.zəl/
a relationship, link, etc. between two things in which one causes ...
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process
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ses/
us
/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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(Definition ofcausalandprocessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Learning the boiling-water explanation increases our comparative information on thecausalprocess.
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However, by definition, an individualcausalprocessalso represents a behavior in which the motion and its causes remain uniform.
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Its role in thatcausalprocessis what makes us pick it out as a member.
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The temporal association between the life events and the onset of disorder provides quite persuasive evidence that a contribution to acausalprocessis involved.
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For a rigid body to be involved in acausalprocess, it must be in the right location at the right time.
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Eachcausalprocesscan be mapped onto one or more segments of the simulation trace in the c-space.
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These findings suggest that effects will best be explained by theories of etiology that include moderator variables capturing these variations incausalprocess.
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However, acausalprocessmay indirectly influence a seemingly unrelated process via one or more intermediate processes.
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It is then possible for acausalprocessnot to be deterministic.
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The required notion is that of a triggeredcausalprocess, which would produce a certain result, if the possibility of shortfalls were not apparent.
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Our goal is to see if selection processes can be construed usefully as a special sort ofcausalprocess.
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Acausalprocessrepresents an interaction in which one set of bodies causes another set to do something.
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This rests the idea of acausalprocesson the prior idea of a causal interaction, demanding an analysis of causal interactions in non-causal terms.
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The only way a system can be steered towards correction is by way of an actualcausalprocess.
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