CAUSE
  1. cause could be defined as emanation. It could be defined also, for purposes of communication, as source-point. (FOT, p. 77)
  2. a potential source of flow. (COHA, p. 258)
  3. is simply the point of emanation of the communication. Cause in our dictionary here means only "source point." (Dn 55. , p. 70)

 



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