CAUSAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does causal mean? 

• CAUSAL (adjective)
  The adjective CAUSAL has 1 sense:

1. involving or constituting a cause; causing

  Familiarity information: CAUSAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUSAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving or constituting a cause; causing

Context example:

a causal relationship between scarcity and higher prices

Similar:

causative (producing an effect)

Derivation:

causality (the relation between causes and effects)

cause (any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results)

cause (a justification for something existing or happening)

cause (events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something)

 Context examples 

A time varying function providing causal changes to a system it acts upon.

(Input Function, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies the link between an adverse event causal assessment and the observation result evaluated as a possible cause.

(Evaluated Result Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of study that tests for a relationship between a condition and a potential causal factor of the condition.

(Correlative Study, NCI Thesaurus)

Although human T-lymphotropic virus-2 (HTVL-2) has been isolated in association with specific diseases it has not been shown to have a causal relationship with any disease.

(HTLV-2, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies the link between an adverse event causal assessment and the activity evaluated as a possible cause.

(Evaluated Activity Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

Studies which look at the causal relationship between depression and suicide.

(Depression and Suicide, NCI Thesaurus)

The research groups are now continuing their efforts to investigate whether there is a causal link between influenza virus mortality and the production of mini viral RNAs.

('Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza, University of Cambridge )

The Intervention Community Trial is a controlled study that involves modification of causal or conjectural causal factors in a population to test a cause-effect relationship.

(Intervention Community Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

But the genetic data indicate that the true causal factor may not be HDL after all, but triglycerides.

(Rare mutations reduce heart disease risk, NIH)

According to the authors, this provides some evidence supporting a causal link between irregular sleep and metabolic dysfunction.

(Study links irregular sleep patterns to metabolic disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)