different between production vs causation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French production, from Latin productio, productionem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d?k??n/

Noun

production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)

1. The act of producing, making or creating something. [from 15th c.]

2. The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. [from 15th c.]
3. The act of being produced.

4. The total amount produced.
5. The presentation of a theatrical work.

6. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.

7. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).

8. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
9. (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
10. (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)

11. (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
12. (Scotland, law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.

Derived terms

• productionise, productionize
• production line

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (purodakushon)

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin productio, productionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.dyk.sj??/

Noun

production f (plural productions)

1. production

Related terms

• produire
• produit

Further reading

• “production” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From cause +? -ation

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

causation (countable and uncountable, plural causations)

1. The act of causing.
2. The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     the kind of causation by which vision is produced

3. Cause and effect; causality.

Synonyms

• causality
• ætiology, aetiology, etiology

Derived terms

• causational

Translations

Further reading

• causation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• causation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.