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Canon may refer to:

Contents 1 Culture and arts 2 Geography 3 Religion 4 Names 5 Others 6 See also

[edit] Culture and arts

• Aesthetic canon, when drawing/modeling etc. a human figure, a rule for its proportions.
• Cannons (house), a stately home in Edgeware, Middlesex now known by its modern spelling, Canons
• Canon as a number of art masterpieces:
  • Chinese classics or Chinese canonical texts
  • Film canon, the limited number of masterpieces by which all other films are judged
  • Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture
• Canon (fiction), material that is considered to be "genuine", "something that actually happened", or can be directly referenced as material produced by the original author or creator.
• Canon (music), a contrapuntal composition which employs a melody with one or more imitations
  • Pachelbel's Canon

[edit] Geography

• Canon, Georgia, a city in Franklin County, Georgia, United States
• Cañon or canyon, a deep valley between cliffs

[edit] Religion

Canon law:

• Canon law (Catholic Church)
• Penitential canons
• Canon (hymnography), a type of Eastern Orthodox hymn

Religious canons:

• Biblical canon
• Taoist canon or Daozang
• Pāli Canon
• Chinese Buddhist canon
• Tibetan Buddhist canon
• Canon of the Mass, the Eucharistic Prayer of the Roman Rite

or

• Canon (priest), a Christian priest who belongs to one of certain chapters

[edit] Names

Canon is the name of:

• Canon (company), a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
• Canon (manga), a shōjo manga by Chika Shiomi
• Canon (game), an online Browser-based strategy war game
• The Canon of Medicine, a medical text written by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
• Canon of Eclipses, a compilation eclipses by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer

[edit] Others

• Canon (sociology), an accepted principle or rule.

[edit] See also

• Canonization
• Cannon (disambiguation)
• Kanon (disambiguation)

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