Canonical definition

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Conforming to orthodox or well-established rules or patterns, as of procedure.
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Of, relating to, or required by canon law.
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Of or belonging to a cathedral chapter.
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Of or appearing in the biblical canon.
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Of or relating to a literary canon.

A canonical writer like Keats.

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(music) Having the form of a canon.
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Of, according to, or ordered by church canon.
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Authoritative; accepted.
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Belonging to the canon of the Bible.
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Of a canon (clergyman)
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The standard or authoritative method. The term comes from "canon," which is the law or rules of the church. See canonical name and canonical synthesis.
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Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.

The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book.

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According to recognised or orthodox rules.

The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.

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Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.

The reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form.

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Prototypical.
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(religion) In conformity with canon law.
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(music) In the form of a canon.
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(religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
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(mathematics, computing) In canonical form.
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(mathematics) Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
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(Roman Catholicism) The formal robes of a priest.
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The definition of canonical is accepted or according to the church or Bible.

An example of something canonical is the set of Ten Commandments.

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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
canonical
Plural:
canonicals

Origin of canonical

  • canon +‎ -ical

    From Wiktionary

Canonical Sentence Examples

  • The emperor renounced investiture by ring and staff, and permitted canonical elections; the pope on his part recognized the king's right to perform lay investiture and to assist at elections.

  • As a little boy he would take his place among the pupils of the monastic school, though he would soon pass to the ranks of the teachers, and the fact that he was ordained deacon at nineteen, below the canonical age, shows that he was regarded as remarkable both for learning and goodness.

  • Hesse's canonical form shows at once that there cannot be more than two independent invariants; for if there were three we could, by elimination of the modulus of transformation, obtain two functions of the coefficients equal to functions of m, and thus, by elimination of m, obtain a relation between the coefficients, showing them not to be independent, which is contrary to the hypothesis.

  • For the history of Pali before the canonical books were composed we have no direct evidence.

  • The discriminant is the resultant of ax and ax and of degree 8 in the coefficients; since it is a rational and integral function of the fundamental invariants it is expressible as a linear function of A 2 and B; it is independent of C, and is therefore unaltered when C vanishes; we may therefore take f in the canonical form 6R 4 f = BS5+5BS4p-4A2p5.

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