Predicate or predication may refer to:
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Predicate (grammar), in linguistics
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Predication (philosophy)
* several closely related uses in mathematics and formal logic:
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Predicate (mathematical logic)
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Propositional function
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Finitary relation, or n-ary predicate
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Boolean-valued function
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Syntactic predicate, in formal grammars and parsers
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Functional predicate
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Predication (computer architecture)
*in United States law, the basis or foundation of something
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Predicate crime
**Predicate rules, in the U.S.
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* Predicate, a term used in some European context for either nobles'
honorifics
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or for
nobiliary particle
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See also
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Predicate logic
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