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Definition
adj (English)
1. (religion) In conformity with canon law.
2. (music) In the form of a canon.
3. (religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
4. (mathematics, computing) In canonical form.
5. (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.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."
6. (fandom slang) Related to or part of the canon of a fictional universe.slang
noun (English)
1. (plural only) The formal robes of a priest.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."pluralplural-only
2. (Internet) A URL presented in canonical form.Examples: "Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS."Internet
Definition source: Wiktionary