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Predication

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A proclamation, announcement or preaching. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument wordnet
  3. 3
    An assertion or affirmation. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  4. 4
    The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    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. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English predicacion, from Anglo-Norman predicaciun, from Latin praedicātiō, from praedicō.

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