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Canonical
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- 1 Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
"The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book."
- 2 According to recognised or orthodox rules.
"The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules."
- 3 Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
"the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form"
- 4 Prototypical.
- 5 In conformity with canon law.
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- 6 In the form of a canon.
- 7 Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
- 8 In canonical form.
- 9 Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
"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."
- 10 Related to or part of the canon of a fictional universe. slang
- 1 conforming to orthodox or recognized rules wordnet
- 2 reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality wordnet
- 3 of or relating to or required by canon law wordnet
- 4 appearing in a biblical canon wordnet
- 1 The formal robes of a priest. plural, plural-only
"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."
- 2 A URL presented in canonical form. Internet
"Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS."
Etymology
From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical.
From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical.
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