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Predicate or predication may refer to:

  • Branch predication (computer programming), a choice to execute or not to execute a given instruction based on the content of a machine register
  • Predicate (grammar),a predicate is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the subject that the predicate modifies). For example, in The flower is yellow, "is yellow" is the predicate.
  • Predicate (mathematical logic), a fundamental concept in first-order logic
  • Syntactic predicate, specifies the syntactic validity of applying a production