fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification
main cause; primary factor
cause and effect; causality; karma; fate; unfortunate; unlucky
one cause; one reason; one factor
consequence; causal relationship; nexus
retribution; retributive justice; karma; just deserts; poetic justice; reward and punishment for one's past behavior
law of cause and effect; principle of causality
to invent a pretext for a quarrel; to pick a fight
convention; tired tradition; old custom
underlying cause; indirect cause; remote cause
cause; factor; hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions); the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya)
investigation to determine the cause (of); tracing something back to its origin
basic factor; (medical) predisposition; diathesis
heartless; cruel; causes and actions; results of actions in previous life
factorization; factorisation
Hon'inbō; Honinbo; grand master of the game of go
contributing cause; exciting cause; incentive; motive
the twelve nidanas (continuum of twelve phases that lead to suffering)
primary cause; main factor
to persuade someone to accept the inevitable
source, cause of an accident
gene; genetic factor; genetic element
prime factorization; prime decomposition
investigation (to determine the cause of something)
to give rise to; to cause
cause and effect; causality
dilly-dallying and temporizing (temporising)
sow evil and reap evil; evil acts bring evil outcomes
hetuvidya (ancient Indian logic for determining right from wrong, truth from falsehood, etc.)
cause and effect; karma; retribution; an evil cause producing an evil effect
good cause (that will bring a good reward); good deed
good action lead to good rewards; one good turn deserves another
causative microorganism; pathogenic bacteria; pathogen
immediate cause; proximate cause
dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
cause analysis; causal analysis; diagnosis
primary factor; main cause
actio libera in causa; manufacturing the conditions of one's own defence (e.g. getting drunk in order to commit a crime)
Hon'inbō Tournament (annual professional go competition); Honinbo Tournament
the sins of the father shall be visited upon the son
retribution spanning the three temporal worlds (present, past, future)
three causes of Buddha nature
the swiftness of retributive justice
Rh factor (Rhesus factor)
insulin-like growth factor; IGF
environmental loss time; external loss time
epidermal growth factor; EGF
zero divisor; null factor; nil factor
lethal factor; lethal gene
natural moisturizing factor; NMF
tissue plasminogen activator; tPA; PLAT
macrophage migration inhibitory factor; MMIF
death by physical trauma; violent death; exogenous death; death by an external cause
tumor necrosis factor (e.g. cachexin); tumour necrosis factor; TNF
recombinant gene splicing
death from natural causes
vascular endothelial growth factor; VEGF
direct cause; proximate cause
three causes of Buddha nature
conventional morality; conventional morals
consideration (in contract law, the thing given or done by the promisee in exchange for the promise)
no matter how unfortunate it is, you cannot stop love; falling in love is an unfortunate fate
to become pregnant with an illegitimate child
Inshū dialect (spoken in eastern Tottori)