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Canon logo #10101) Accepted principle 2) Accepted standard 3) Any law or decree 4) Basic reading 5) Big name in cameras 6) Body of law 7) Body of laws 8) Body of literary work 9) Body of okayed works 10) Body of principles 11) Body of rules 12) Body of standards 13) Byzantine music 14) Camera and copier maker 15) Camera company
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Canon

Canon logo #10101) Canyon 2) Creed 3) Law 4) Music 5) Policy 6) Prebendary 7) Statute
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Cañón

Cañón logo #10101) River in Chile 2) River in The Americas 3) River of Chile 4) River of South America 5) River in The New World 6) River in South America 7) River of The Americas
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Canon

Canon logo #21002• (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. • (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank. • (n.) A law or rule. • (n.) The largest size of type ...
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Canon logo #21003(from the article `Penderecki, Krzysztof`) Penderecki`s Canon for 52 strings (1962) made use of polyphonic techniques (based on interwoven melodies) known to Renaissance composers. Yet he also ...
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Canon logo #21003(from the article `Polyclitus`) ...(c. 450–440 ; `Spear Bearer`), the latter work being known as the `Canon` (Greek: Kanon) because it was the illustration of his book by that name. ...
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canon logo #21003(from the article `Christianity`) ...often revived. The other new moment began in the 12th century when new forms of religious life burst on the scene, especially among monks and ... ...the same with six red tassels on each side. A domestic prelate has a purple hat with six purple tassels on each side, and a privy chamberlain a ... ....
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canon logo #21003(from the article `scripture`) Types of sacred literature vary in authority and degree of sacredness. The centrally important and most holy of the sacred texts have in many ... Old Testament canon, texts, and versionsNew Testament canon, texts, and versions...the Christian biblical canon took shape, Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria, in h...
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Canon logo #22385(from Grk kanon, meaning 'reed' or 'measuring rod') Canon has three general meanings. (1) An approve
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Cañon

Cañon logo #20972Ca·ñon' noun [ Spanish , a tube or hollow, from caña reed, from Latin canna . See Cane .] A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [ Mexico & Western U. S.]
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Canon logo #20972Can'on noun [ Middle English canon , canoun , Anglo-Saxon canon rule (cf. French canon , Late Latin canon , and, for sense 7, French chanoine , Late Latin canonicus ), from Latin canon a measuring line, rule, model, from Greek ... rule, rod, fr...
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Canon

Canon logo #21634A collection of books accepted as holy scripture.
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Canon logo #21217A Canon is a church dignitary who possesses a prebend, or revenue allotted for the performance of divine service in a cathedral or collegiate church. Canons were formerly divided into canons regular, or those living a monastic life, and canons secular, those not so living. In England, besides the ordinary canons - who with the dean form the chapter...
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Canon logo #21217A canon is a musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation.
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Canon logo #22986A general term for an authoritative set of sacred texts (Smith and Green 1995
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Canon logo #23756 The most authoritative source of information on a given topic.
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canon logo #23421 an authentic body of writing by one author.
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canon logo #20974 noun a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; `the neoclassical canon`; `canons of polite society`
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Canon logo #21203(Gr. kanon, rule) A term reminiscent of the arts and crafts, sometimes applied, since Epicurus who replaced the ancient dialectics by a canonics (kanonike), to any norm or rule which the logical process obeys. Thus John Stuart Mill speaks of five experimental methods as being regulated by certain canons. Kant defined canon as the sum total of all ....
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canon logo #21221(music) Piece or passage of contrapuntal music in which one voice repeats the part of another, like an echo. The first vocal or instrumental part begins with the melody and is followed soon after by the second part imitating that melody note for note (though often starting on a different note ...
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canon logo #21221(religious writings) In theology, the collection of writings that is accepted as authoritative in a given religion, such as the Tripitaka in Theravada Buddhism. In the Christian church, it comprises the books of the Bible. The canon of the Old Testament was drawn up at the assembly of rabbis h...
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canon logo #21784 a contrapuntal form in two or more (voice or instrumental) parts in which the melody is introduced by one part and then repeated by the next before each previous part has finished (i.e., such that overlapping of parts occurs).
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canon logo #22288a composition in which each part has exactly the same melody throughout the piece, starting at different points. The strictest form of imitation.
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canon logo #23665 a collection of books accepted as holy scripture
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canon logo #23665[Intelligent words] a collection of books accepted as holy scripture
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