Canon

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Canon or Canons may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by an author or an ascribed author
Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture
- Western canon, the body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in the West
Canon of proportions, a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art
Canon (music), a type of composition
Canon (hymnography), a type of hymn used in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
Canon (album), a 2007 album by Ani DiFranco
Canon (film), a 1964 Canadian animated short
Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game
Canon (manga), by Nikki
Canonical plays of William Shakespeare
The Canon (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book by Natalie Angier
The Canon (podcast), concerning film
The Cannons, an indie band

Brands and enterprises

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

People

Canon (rapper) (born Aaron McCain, 1989)
Fernando Canon (1860–1938), Filipino revolutionary general, poet, inventor, engineer, musician and chess player
Lou Canon, stage name of Leanne Greyerbiehl, a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter

Places

Canon, Georgia, United States
Canons Park, London, United Kingdom
Canon Row, a street in Westminster, London
Cañon City, Colorado, United States
Cañon Fiord, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada
Canon Rock, an island in Northern Ireland

Religion

Religious text § Authority of religious texts: some religious texts are accepted or categorized as canonical, some non-canonical, and others extracanonical, semi-canonical, deutero-canonical, pre-canonical or post-canonical
- Biblical canon, a set of texts regarded by a Christian or Jewish community as part of the Bible
Canon law, the whole judicial system in Christian churches
- Canon (canon law), a law or ordinance promulgated by a synod, ecumenical council, or individual bishop (within the canon law system of that Church).
Canon (clergy), a title of certain Christian priests
- Canon regular, a priest who lives in community under a rule
Canon (hymnography), a kind of hymn in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Pāli Canon, scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism (these include the Sutta Pitaka, the Vinaya Pitaka and the Abhidhamma Pitaka)

Other uses

Canon (basic principle), an accepted body of rules
Canon, in bellfounding, one or more hanging loops cast integrally with the crown
The Canon of Medicine, a 1025 CE medical encyclopedia by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club based in the capital city of Yaoundé
Canons High School, Edgware, Greater London