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root cause

noun, verb — 2 senses

root cause

noun
1

Idiomatic An initiating cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.

  • However, the report finds that the "root cause has not yet been established".2021 September 22, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Hitachi cracks due to fatigue and corrosion”, in RAIL, number 940, page 22:
Derived terms
RCA

root cause

verb
1

To identify the cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.

  • Fishbones are a great tool for collecting, categorizing, and root-causing feedback from staff.2017, Charles Protzman, Joyce Kerpchar, George Mayzell, Leveraging Lean in Ancillary Hospital Services, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 108:
  • After the effect of the bug is observed using post-silicon tests, the next step is to localize the source of error, root-cause bugs, and fix them.2018, Prabhat Mishra, Farimah Farahmandi, chapter 1, in Post-Silicon Validation and Debug, Springer, →ISBN, page 13:

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