Pedication vs Predication - What's the difference?
pedication | predication |
A proclamation, announcement or preaching
An assertion or affirmation
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(logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition
(computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated
As nouns the difference between pedication and predication
is that pedication is sex with a boy while predication is predication.predication
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.