CVD, Oxidation, and Diffusion Fundamentals of Micromachining Dr. Bruce K. Gale BIOEN 6421 EL EN 5221 and 6221 ME EN 5960 and 6960 Thin-Film Deposition.
verb (used with object), predicated, predicating. 1. to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert. 2. Logic. to affirm or assert (something) of the subject of a proposition. to make (a term) the predicate of such a proposition.
early 15c., case which may be taken as a rule in similar cases, from Middle French precedent, noun use of an adjective, from Latin praecedentum (nominative praecedens), present participle of praecedere go before (see precede). Meaning thing or person that goes before another is attested from mid-15c. As an adjective in English from c.1400. As a verb meaning to furnish with a precedent from 1610s, now only in past participle precedented.