canonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kɫ̩]
ipa: /kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kəl/
ipa: [kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kɫ̩]
ipa: /kəˈnɔn.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [kəˈnɔn.ɪ.kɫ̩]
ipa: /kəˈnɒn.ə.kəl/
ipa: [kəˈnɔ̟n.ə.kɫ̩]
Forms: form: more canonical
form: most canonical
Etymology: From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book.
text: In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of the Apoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies of Chriſtians, as Canonical Scripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority[…]
ref: 1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] , 2nd edition, page 4:
glosses: Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
examples: text: The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.
text: While bills are being brought into the House of Commons to regulate every thing, from the sweeps crying "sweep," to "emancipation, vote by ballot, and free trade," is there no county member whose "time and talents" are devoted to "domestic policy," who will bring in a bill "for the better regulation of the marriage ceremony," and put the canonical hours later in the day?
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 158–159:
glosses: According to recognised or orthodox rules.
examples: text: the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form
glosses: Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
glosses: Prototypical.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: In conformity with canon law.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In the form of a canon.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In canonical form.
examples: text: It turns out that ordered pairs can be defined in set theory, e.g. as
 (x,y)#58;#61;#92;#123;#92;#123;x,y#92;#125;,y#92;#125;.
 Note that in no sense is such a definition canonical.
ref: 2011 July 2, Samson Abramsky with Nikos Tzevelekos, “Introduction to Categories and Categorical Logic”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 19:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Related to or part of the canon of a fictional universe.
Synonyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: natural
Derived terms: acanonical
anticanonical
bicanonical
canonical conjunctive normal form
canonical disjunctive normal form
canonical ensemble
canonical form
canonical formalism
canonical hour
canonicalisation
canonicalise
canonicality
canonicalization
canonicalize
canonically
canonicalness
canonical obedience
canonical sequence
deuterocanonical
extracanonical
microcanonical
multicanonical
noncanonical
non-canonical
parabicanonical
paracanonical
pluricanonical
postcanonical
precanonical
protocanonical
semicanonical
subcanonical
supracanonical
uncanonical