(Christianity) A cleric in orders, attached to a cathedral and having the duty of assisting the canons in singing divine service.

(Christianity) The obedience, as regulated by the canons, of one ecclesiastic to another of higher rank.

(Roman Catholicism) The oldest anaphora used in the Roman rite of Mass.

A village in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9398).

(Roman Catholicism) The Canon of the Mass, the oldest anaphora of the Roman rite of the Mass.

(fandom slang) Not part of canon; outside of the main continuity of a fictional universe.

(statistical mechanics) The statistical ensemble that represents the possible states of a mechanical system in thermal equilibrium with a heat bath at a fixed temperature.

plural of canonical ensemble

(logic) Conjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the product contain the same literals, so that the terms differ from each other only in their patterns of complementation (of their literals).

(logic) Disjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the sum contain the same literals, so that the terms differ from each other only in their patterns of complementation (of their literals).