predication
nounEtymology From Middle English predicacion, from Anglo-Norman predicaciun, from Latin praedicātiō, from praedicō.
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A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
2
An assertion or affirmation.
- It can be immediately observed from these sentences that the English subject of a predication is translated in Japanese with a wa-phrase, while the subject of a nonpredicational description appears as a ga-phrase.1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 24 Feb 2014:
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Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated.
- Derived terms
- copredication, predicational
- Related terms
- prediction