caus.

American  

abbreviation

1. causative.

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Example Sentences

One of de Caus’s machines, however, has a sophisticated feedback mechanism.

From Literature

De Caus is important because when Descartes wrote about machines it is particularly his machines that he had in mind, and it is de Caus who transmits the new terminology from Latin into French, and through Descartes into English.

From Literature

If animals are machines and nothing but machines, then for Cartesians it must follow that the human body, which is evidently similar to the body of an ape, works like a machine, and Cartesian doctors were eager to study human anatomy as an example not of a geared mechanical system but of a hydraulic system of the sort that powered de Caus’s fountains and player organs.

From Literature

It was engineers such as de Caus who, by generalizing the concept of a moving mechanism, made the clockwork universe and the mechanical man possible.

From Literature

De Caus in 1615 played with a very simple steam engine, and working steam engines require simple feedback mechanisms.

From Literature