causal agent meaning

Noun: causal agent

1. Any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
   - cause, causal agency

Derived forms: causal agents

Type of: physical entity

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1. crown rust is the common name both of a serious leaf-rust disease of oats and of the causal agent.
2. holmes crossed two compatible races of ceratocystis ulmi, the causal agent of dutch elm disease.
3. causal agent identification of apricot fruit black spot and biological characteristics of the pathogen
4. The decaying atom's photon is the simple causal agent.
5. This disease was the causal agent of the Bengal famine of 1943.