An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Of, involving, or constituting a cause; indicative of or expressing a cause.

Adj. from → cause.

In → special relativity, the causal relationship between → events involving a → light cone.

→ causal; → structure.

The relationship between causes and effects

Causality, from → causal + -ity.

Bonârmandi, from bonâr→ cause + -mand suffix denoting relation, affinity + -i noun forming suffix.

The principle that cause must always precede effect.

→ causality; → principle.

One consequence of the theory of → special relativity, according to which no two events separated by a distance greater than their separation in time multiplied by the → speed of light may have a → causal influence on each other. Violation of this principle leads to → paradoxes, such as that of an → effect preceding its → cause.

→ principle; → relativistic; → causality.