Predicate Predicate

Predicate - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Affirmation, Announce, Announcement, Annunciation, Appositive, Assert, Assertion, Attribute, Bottom, Complement
  • In mathematics, a predicate is a relation.
  • In grammar a predicate is a part of a sentence. More particularly, the predicate is further information about the subject - what the subject is doing, what the subject is like, etc. It's really that part of the sentence which is not the subject! See sentence (linguistics).
  • In computer programming, a predicate is an operator or function which returns a Boolean value, true or false.
  • In Bertrand Russell's theory of types, a predication is an act of typing, that is, assigning a type. A definite description in fact contains a claim of existence.
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Example Usage of Predicate
superherogirl: oh.... Predicate logic... you are tricky
robertovalentin: Dónde esta lo que soñaste? Que fue lo que Predicate, con lo que tu te bucate traicionaste pa bucate...
LabileEnnui: The optional third argument must be a binary Predicate, a binary function returning a boolean value.
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