canonical
pronunciation
How to pronounce canonical in British English:
UK [kəˈnɒnɪkl]
How to pronounce canonical in American English:
US [kəˈnɑnɪkl]
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- Adjective:
- appearing in a Biblical canon
- of or relating to or required by canon law
- reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
- conforming to orthodox or recognized rules
Word Origin
- canonical (adj.)
- early 15c., "according to ecclesiastical law," from Medieval Latin canonicalis, from Late Latin canonicus "according to rule," in Church Latin, "pertaining to the canon" (see canon (n.1)). Earlier was canonial (early 13c.).
Example
- 1. Doesn 't the display amount to a violation of the canonical separation of religion and politics ?
- 2. Two things that you could do are setting a preferred domain name in webmaster tools if you haven 't done so already and setting up a canonical redirect to that preferred version .
- 3. The canonical format of a book should be html .
- 4. Software patents are not legal in europe , where ubuntu developer canonical is based .
- 5. The backing of canonical behind this project could bring it up to speed as a really interesting alternative and a good successor to x , just as it could make it something that only suits ubuntu itself .