Definition of "causation"

causation

/kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural causations
1. The act of causing.
2. The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
  Quotations
  Aristotle's views led him to try to describe the kind of causation by which vision is produced, instead of the laws by which it is exercised; and the attempt consisted, as in other subjects, of indistinct principles, and ill-combined facts.
  1837, William Whewell, “Earliest Stages of Optics”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, book II (History of the Physical Sciences in Ancient Greece), page 100
3. Cause and effect, considered as a system.