What is a predicate?

Question

Being a hobbyist coder, I\'m lacking some fundamental knowledge. For the last couple days I\'ve been reading some stuff and the word \"predicate\" keeps reappearing. I\'d ve

Answer 1

A basic evaluation that results in a boolean¹ value. It often refers to a function or object that represents an evaluation of this type.

^{1: boolean used loosely, not necessarily referring to variables declared bool or boolean.}