root cause
nounid
3955·updated May 9, 2026verified
The underlying or original source of an incident or problem.
MWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.03.03.b ¶ 1
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unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- cause of failure
- plural
- root causes
- possessive
- root cause's
- pluralpossessive
- root causes'
Framework definitions
- §1
- The underlying or original source of an incident or problem.
- §1 · attested_usage_pack_match
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- The underlying or original source of an incident or problem.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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