predication

plural predications · alternative archaic prædication

1. countableuncountableA proclamation, announcement or preaching.
2. countableuncountableAn assertion or affirmation.

   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.

   1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 24 Feb 2014

3. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition.
4. countableuncountablecomputingThe parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated.