predication
See also: prédication
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English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English predicacion, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value xno is not valid. See WT:LOL. predicaciun, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin praedicātiō, from praedicō.
Noun
predication (countable and uncountable, plural predications)
- A proclamation, announcement or preaching.
- An assertion or affirmation.
- 1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT[1], retrieved 2014-02-24:
- 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.
- (logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
- (computing) 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.
Translations
proclamation, announcement or preaching
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assertion or affirmation
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The action of making a term or expression the predicate of a statement
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See also
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989