cause-and-effect

[ kawz-uhnd-i-fekt, -uhn- ]

adjective

1. noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.

Example Sentences

Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow and chairs of the UK government’s obesity mission, said it was difficult to establish "cause and effect" in single cases where patients die after taking the drugs.

From BBC

These studies also give us limited information about cause and effect.

From Slate

Finn and Sarroff stage several sequences in long takes, the camera swinging back and forth, side to side to capture cause and effect, terror and reaction.

From Los Angeles Times

Curiosity, cause and effect, and gaming have always been in our DNA as a species, and that’s across all cultures.

From Los Angeles Times

The way to tease out cause and effect is to take a group of people and randomly assign some of them to play video games while keeping others game-free to serve as controls.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• chemical reaction
• vicious circle