canonical
/kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kəl/US/kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kəl/
canonical adjective: present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
Adjective
canonical (comparative more canonical, superlative most canonical)
- Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
- 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[…]1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] , 2nd edition, page 4
- According to recognised or orthodox rules.
- 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...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...
- Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
- the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form
- Prototypical.
- In conformity with canon law.
- In the form of a canon.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
- In canonical form.
- 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.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
- It turns out that ordered pairs can be defined in set theory, e.g. as
- Related to or part of the canon of a fictional universe; officially part of a fictional work’s established continuity.
Noun
canonical (plural canonicals)
- The formal robes of a priest.
- 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.1857, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857
- 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.1891, Emily Sarah Holt, The White Lady of Hazelwood
- A URL presented in canonical form.
- Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.2015, Simon Kloostra, Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance, page 63
canonical meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
canonical in Tamil
- ஒழுங்கு முறைப்பட்ட, கட்டளைமுறைக்குரிய
canonical in Marathi
- कॅनॉनिकल, कॅनोनिकल, कॅनोनीकल
canonical in Urdu
- کینونکل
canonical in Bengali
- প্রামাণ্য, আদর্শগত
More languagesFewer languages
- canonical in Telugu
- కానానికల్, కానోనికల్, కాననికల్
- canonical in Malayalam
- കാനോനിക, നിയമാനുസാരിയായ, നിയമാനുസൃതമായ, പ്രമാണയുക്തമായ
- canonical in Kannada
- ಕ್ಯಾನೊನಿಕಲ್, ಕ್ಯಾನೋನಿಕಲ್
- canonical in Punjabi
- ਕੈਨੋਨੀਕਲ, ਕੈਨੋਨਿਕਲ
- canonical in Gujarati
- કેનોનિકલ, કેનનિકલ
- canonical in Odia
- କ୍ଯ଼ାନୋନିକାଲ, କାନୋନିକାଲ, କ୍ଯ଼ାନୋନିକ୍
- canonical in Nepali
- क्यानोनिकल, केनोनिकल, कैनोनिकल
Examples of canonical in a sentence
- A direct limit has “canonical functions” which map each element of the disjoint union to its equivalence class.
- Most Sherlock transfic is not genderswap in the sense that characters do not change their canonical gender.
- This molecular framework has focused on the canonical pallidostriatal and pallidosubthalamic projections.
Synonyms of canonical
Antonyms
Forms of canonical
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more canonical |
| superlative | most canonical |
| Noun | |
| plural | canonicals |
Origin of canonical
From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical.
Words formed from canonical
- 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
Phrases with canonical
Words that rhyme with canonical
Questions about canonical
- What does canonical mean?
- Canonical means present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
- What is canonical in Tamil?
- Canonical in Tamil is ஒழுங்கு முறைப்பட்ட, கட்டளைமுறைக்குரிய. See Canonical meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is canonical?
- Canonical can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce canonical?
- Canonical is pronounced /kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kəl/ (UK).
Words near canonical in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: canonical (page history and authors); canonical (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); canonical (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); canonical (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); canonical (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); canonical (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); canonical (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); canonical (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); canonical (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); canonical (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); canonical (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); canonical (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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