caus.

American  

abbreviation

1. causative.

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Example Sentences

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

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

Descartes does not think of the universe as being like a clock because in his view outer space is filled not with the crystal spheres of Ptolemaic astronomy, nor with the gears and levers of de Caus’s machines, but with liquid vortices which carry the planets in their orbits around the stars.

From Literature

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

From Literature