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

• Predicate logic