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predicate

predicate (third-person singular simple present predicates, present participle predicating, simple past and past participle predicated)

1. (transitive) To announce or assert publicly.
2. (transitive, logic) To state, assert.
3. (transitive) To suppose, assume; to infer.
   • 1859: There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
   • 1881: Of anyone else it would have been said that she must be finding the afternoon rather dreary in the quaint halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to predicate so surely. — Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean
4. (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
   • 1978: the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. — Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, p. 81)

predicate (plural predicates)

1. (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject.

   In ""The dog barked very loudly"", the subject is ""the dog"" and the predicate is ""barked very loudly"".

2. (logic) A statement that may be true or false depending on the values of its variables.

   A nullary predicate is a proposition. Also, an instance of a predicate whose terms are all constant — e.g., P(2,3) — acts as a proposition.

   A predicate can be thought of as either a relation (between elements of the domain of discourse) or as a truth-valued function (of said elements).

   A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.

   There are two ways of binding a predicates variables: one is to assign constant values to those variables, the other is to quantify over those variables (using universal or existential quantifiers). If all of a predicates variables are bound, the resulting formula is a proposition.

3. (computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.

Definizione dizionario predicate

	predicato
	In Exchange Server 2007, a function that is used as a condition or exception on a transport rule to determine whether an action should be applied to an e-mail message.

	asserire
	Affermare o dichiarare come un attributo o una qualità di.
	To affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of.

	proclamare
	Affermare o dichiarare come un attributo o una qualità di.
	To affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of.

affermare

Altri significati:

(transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.

(computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.

to announce or assert publicly

logic

(transitive) To announce or assert publicly.

(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject.

(transitive, logic) To state, assert.

(transitive) To suppose, assume; to infer.

(logic) A statement that may be true or false depending on the values of its variables.

grammar

One of the two main parts of a sentence used as an expression that can be true of something.