Canon

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Canon may refer to:

Video Canon

Religion

Scriptures

• Various formally approved collections of scriptures, including:
  • Biblical canon, among various Jewish and Christian communities
  • Chinese Buddhist canon, used in East Asia
  • Jewish Bible canon, another name for the Tanakh
  • P?li Canon, used in the Therevada Buddhist tradition
  • Taoist canon (Daozang), about 1400 texts collected around the 4th century
  • Tibetan Buddhist canon, a loosely defined list used in the Vajrayana tradition
• Canon (hymnography), a kind of hymn in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
• Canon (priest), a title of certain Christian priests
• Canons regular, priests living in community under a rule
• Canon of the Mass, the Eucharistic Prayer of the Roman Rite
• Gospel canon, a work attempting to harmonize the accounts of the four Christian Gospels

Religious law

• Canon law, a rule of conduct or belief prescribed by the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches
  • Canon law, religious laws, particularly in Christian contexts
  • Canonization, the formal process of recognizing a Christian saint
• Canon law (Catholic Church)
  • Penitential canons, the Catholic canon laws regarding certain penances to be done for certain sins
• Canon of construction, a rule or generally accepted principle of statutory interpretation

Maps Canon

Arts and media

• Canon (basic principle), a rule or a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
• Aesthetic canon, a rule for the proportions of a human figure

Literature

• Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base
• Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture
  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, a 1994 book by Harold Bloom
• Canon (manga), by Nikki
• Canon of Dutch Literature, a list of the most important Dutch literary works
• Canon of Eclipses, an 1887 compilation of eclipses by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer
• Canon of Kings, a dated list of kings used by ancient astronomers as a convenient means to date astronomical phenomena
• Danish Culture Canon, a list of 108 works of cultural excellence
• The Canon (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book by Natalie Angier
• The Canon of Medicine, a medical text written by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Film, television, and video

• The Canon (podcast), a film podcast by Devin Faraci and Amy Nicholson
• Canon (film), a 1964 Canadian animated short based on the canon musical form

Music

• Canon (music), a contrapuntal composition which employs a melody with one or more imitations
  • Pachelbel's Canon, the name commonly given to a canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel
• Canon (rapper) (born 1989), American Christian rapper
• Canon (album), a 2007 album by Ani DiFranco

Other media

• Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game

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Companies

• Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
• Château Canon (disambiguation), any of a number of wineries
• UBM Canon, a media company headquartered in Los Angeles

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Places

• Canon, Georgia, a city
• Cañon Fiord, a fjord on Ellesmere in Nunavut, Canada
• Cañon City, Colorado
  • Cañon City Downtown Historic District, a historic district in Cañon City, Colorado
  • Cañon City School District, a school district in Cañon City, Colorado
    • Cañon City High School, a high school in Cañon City, Colorado, United States
• Mézidon-Canon, a commune in Normandy, France
• Canons Park, London, UK
  • Canons Park tube station, a London Underground station at Canons Park

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Other uses

• Canon of Dutch History, fifty topics to be taught in schools in the Netherlands
• Canon, in bellfounding, one or more hanging loops cast integrally with the crown
• Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club

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See also

• Canaan, a region in the Ancient Near East
• Cannon (disambiguation)
• Canyon or cañon, a deep valley between cliffs
  • Canyon (disambiguation)
• Canonical (disambiguation)
• Kanon (disambiguation)
• Standard (disambiguation)

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