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causality — casualty
(plural: causalities; casualties; the letter ‘c’ in ‘causality’ is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound, and the ‘ca’ rhyme with the ‘co’ in “court” rhyming with the word “cause”; and the ‘c’ in ‘casualty’ is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound, and the ‘ca’ rhyme with the ‘ca’ in “cat” — for the right pronunciation of ‘causality’, please click here, and for the right pronunciation of ‘casualty’, please click here)
“Causality”, a very rarely used word that related to science, means ‘the relation between a cause and its result’,
e.g.
A science student must know what the law of causality says.
Our professor says that causality tests of money polices on inflation (increasing prices) could be very misleading.
“Casualty” is ‘a person wounded in an accident; a soldier wounded in a battle; and a department or ward in a hospital where people injured in accidents are treated immediately’,
e.g.
- accident casualties
The enemy suffered heavy casualties.
[i.e. many enemy soldiers died or wounded]
The earthquake casualties were rushed to the nearest hospitals.
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