Predicate
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Predicate or predication may refer to:
- Predicate (mathematics), a relation, or the boolean-valued characteristic function or indicator function of a relation
- Predicate (logic), a fundamental concept in first-order logic
- in Bertrand Russell's theory of types, an act of typing: that is, assigning a type
- Syntactic predicate, specifies the syntactic validity of applying a production
- Predicate (grammar), the rest of a sentence apart from the subject
- Predicate (computer programming), an operator or function which returns a boolean value
- Branch predication, a choice to execute or not to execute a given instruction based on the content of a machine register
- in Resource Description Framework, a trait or aspect about that resource that is being described

