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paracanonical

paracanonical adjective: outside of a canon of literature.

Adjective

paracanonical (not comparable)

  1. Outside of a canon of literature
  2. Pertaining to a curve in the linear system of a canonical divisor of an irregular surface and any point on that surface.
    • The Prym-Green Conjecture predicts that the resolution of a generic n-torsion paracanonical curve of every genus is natural.2015, Gavril Farkas, Michael Kemeny, “The Prym-Green Conjecture for torsion bundles of high order”, in arXiv

Origin of paracanonical

From para- + canonical.

Questions about paracanonical

What does paracanonical mean?
Paracanonical means outside of a canon of literature.
What part of speech is paracanonical?
Paracanonical is an adjective.

Words near paracanonical in the dictionary

  1. paracallus
  2. paracancerous
  3. paracanoe
  4. paracanoeist
  5. paracanoeists
  6. paracanonical
  7. paracapillary
  8. paracapsular
  9. paracarcinoma
  10. paracarcinomatous
  11. paracardiac

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