Predicate
# Predicate

Predicate or predication may refer to:

* Predicate (grammar), in linguistics
* Predication (philosophy)
* several closely related uses in mathematics and formal logic:
   * Predicate (mathematical logic)
   * Propositional function
   * Finitary relation, or n-ary predicate
   * Boolean-valued function
   * Syntactic predicate, in formal grammars and parsers
   * Functional predicate
* Predication (computer architecture)
* in United States law, the basis or foundation of something
   * Predicate crime
   * Predicate rules, in the U.S. Title 21 CFR Part 11
* Predicate, a term used in some European context for either nobles' honorifics or for nobiliary particles
