plural of cantonment

A gallery, in an Italian church, occupied by the choir

present participle of canton

simple past tense and past participle of canton

(heraldry) Having a charge in each of the four corners; said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

Of, pertaining to, or in the fashion of a cantor

(rare) In a Cantorian manner; according to Cantor's theories or writings.

Of or pertaining to Georg Cantor (1845-1918), German mathematician and creator of set theory. / (set theory, New Foundations) Smaller than its own power set; satisfying Cantor's theorem.

(set theory) A theorem which (in a simpler formulation) states that a closed uncountable set in Euclidean n-space is equal to the disjoint union of a perfect set and a countable set.

(church architecture) Of the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the cantor's (later precentor's) stall is placed (the left hand side to a person facing the altar);