cause and effect
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ənd adjective
noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
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| Main Entry: | cause and effect |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | the concept that concept that an action or event will produce a certain response to the action in the form of another event; also written cause-effect, cause/effect |
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Cause and effect
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
Without addressing cause and effect, this article indicates that visual input may have caused the profound changes.
It's untenable but logic in terms of cause and effect are beyond this crowd.
The proportions between cause and effect were skewed.
The desire to see cause and effect isn't a quaint psychological quirk.
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