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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 which the predicate modifies). For the simple sentence, John is yellow, "John" acts as the subject and "is yellow" acts as the predicate.
  • Predicate (mathematical logic), a fundamental concept in first-order logic
  • Syntactic predicate, specifies the syntactic validity of applying a production