canonical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
religion
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more canonical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most canonical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: canonicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
pos: adj
examples: The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book.
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[…]
gloss: According to recognised or orthodox rules.
pos: adj
examples: The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.
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?
gloss: Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
pos: adj
examples: the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form
gloss: Prototypical.
pos: adj
gloss: In conformity with canon law.
pos: adj
gloss: In the form of a canon.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
pos: adj
gloss: In canonical form.
pos: adj
gloss: Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Related to or part of the canon of a fictional universe; officially part of a fictional work’s established continuity.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: The formal robes of a priest.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard.
Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals, was not altogether a common one.
When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will in canonicals, I do still deny him and repudiate him.
gloss: A URL presented in canonical form.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.
Synonyms: natural
Antonyms: apocryphal
Derived words: 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
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