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==English==
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===Etymology===
From {{inh|en|enm|canonycal}}, from {{der|en|ML.|canōnicālis}}.<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=canonicāl|pos=adj|id=MED6680}}</ref><ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=''adj.'' and ''n.''|noformat=1|id=1723742918}}</ref> {{surf|en|canon|-ical}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kəl/|[kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kl̩]|a=UK}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-canonical.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{IPA|en|/kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kəl/|[kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kl̩]|a=US,CA}}
* {{IPA|en|/kəˈnɔn.ɪ.kəl/|[kəˈnɔn.ɪ.kl̩]|a=AU}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# Present in a [[canon]], [[religious]] or otherwise.
#: {{ux|en|The [[w:Gospel of Luke|Gospel of Luke]] is a '''canonical''' New Testament book.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|page=4|title=A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the '''Canonical''' Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew;{{...}}|edition=2nd|author=George Reynolds|year=1732|url= https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=uhxhAAAAcAAJ |text=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''{{...}}}}
# According to [[recognised]] or [[orthodox]] [[rule]]s.
#: {{ux|en|The men played golf in the most '''canonical''' way, with no local rules.}}
#* {{RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard|pages=158–159|volume=I|passage=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 regulation of the marriage ceremony," and put the '''canonical''' hours later in the day?}}
# Stated or used in the most [[basic]] and [[straightforward]]ly [[applicable]] manner.
#: {{ux|en|the reduction of a linear substitution to its '''canonical''' form}}
# [[prototypical|Prototypical]].
# {{lb|en|religion}} In conformity with [[canon law]].
# {{lb|en|music}} In the form of a [[canon]].
# {{lb|en|religion}} Of or pertaining to an [[ecclesiastical]] [[chapter]]
# {{lb|en|mathematics|computing}} In [[canonical form]].
# {{lb|en|mathematics}} [[distinguished|Distinguished]] among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any [[arbitrary]] choices.
#* {{quote-web|en|date=7-2-2011|author=Samson Abramsky|title=Introduction to Categories and Categorical Logic|url=http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1313|text=It turns out that ordered pairs can be ''defined'' in set theory, e.g. as<br><br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<math>(x, y) :=\{\{x, y\}, y\}</math>.<br><br> Note that in no sense is such a definition '''canonical'''.|coauthors=Nikos Tzevelekos|page=19}}
# {{senseid|en|fancanonical}} {{lb|en|fandom slang}} Related to or part of the {{l|en|canon|id=Q53815}} of a [[fictional]] [[universe]].

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|mathematics}} {{l|en|natural}}

====Antonyms====
* {{antsense|scripture}} {{l|en|apocryphal}}

====Derived terms====
{{col|en|subcanonical
|canonical ensemble|acanonical
|anticanonical
|bicanonical
|canonical conjunctive normal form
|canonical disjunctive normal form
|canonical form
|canonical formalism
|canonical hour
|canonical obedience
|canonical sequence
|canonicalisation
|canonicalise
|canonicality
|canonicalization
|canonicalize
|canonically
|canonicalness
|deuterocanonical
|extracanonical
|microcanonical
|multicanonical
|non-canonical
|noncanonical
|parabicanonical
|paracanonical
|pluricanonical
|postcanonical
|precanonical
|protocanonical
|semicanonical
|supracanonical
|uncanonical}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|present in a canon, religious or otherwise}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|canònic}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kanona}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kanoninen}}, {{t|fi|[[kaanoni]]in [[kuuluva]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|canonique}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|canónico}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|κανονικός|m}}
* Japanese: {{q|fandom}} {{t|ja|[[カノン]][[的]]な|tr=kanon-teki na}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|каноникалық}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|canoanagh}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|gesettendlīc}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kanoniczny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|canónico}} {{q|Portugal}}, {{t+|pt|canônico}} {{q|Brazil}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|canónico}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|kanonisk}}
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{{trans-top|according to recognised or orthodox rules}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|oikeaoppinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|orthodoxe|m|f}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|канондық}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|gesettendlīc}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kanoniczny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|canónico}} {{q|Portugal}}, {{t+|pt|canônico}} {{q|Brazil}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kanoninen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|basique}}
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{{trans-see|Prototypical|prototypical}}

{{trans-top|(religion) in conformity with canon law}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|canònic}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kanoninen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|canonique}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|κανονικός|m}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|agglishagh}}, {{t|gv|canoanagh}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|gesettendlīc}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kanoniczny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|canónico}} {{q|Portugal}}, {{t+|pt|canônico}} {{q|Brazil}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|canónico}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(music) in the form of a canon}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|kaanonissa}}, {{t+|fi|kaanon|alt=kaanon-}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(religion) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kanoninen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|κανονικός|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|in canonical form}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|կանոնական|sc=Armn}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|kanonický}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kanoninen}}, {{t|fi|kanonisoitu}}
* French: {{t+|fr|canonique}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kanoniczny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|canónico}} {{q|Portugal}}, {{t+|pt|canônico}} {{q|Brazil}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Esperanto: {{t-check|eo|kanona}}
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===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|plurale tantum}} The formal robes of a [[priest]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1857|author=Various|title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10138
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1891|author=w:Emily Sarah Holt|title=The White Lady of Hazelwood|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23623
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1915|author=w:H. G. Wells|title=The Research Magnificent|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1138
|passage=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.}}
# {{lb|en|internet}} A [[URL]] presented in [[canonical form]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2015|author=Simon Kloostra|title=Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance|page=63
|passage=Google advises '''canonicals''' as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.}}

===References===
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{{C|en|Canon law|Narratology}}