Canon
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Canon is the "accepted" or "official" version or type of something.
Canon may refer to:
- Canon (company), a Japanese corporation
- Canon (fiction), a body of works considered "genuine" or "official" within a fictional universe
- Canon (music), a contrapuntal composition which employs a melody with one or more imitations
- Canon (priest), a Christian priest who belongs to one of certain chapters
- Canon (hymnography), a type of Eastern Orthodox hymn
- Canon (manga), a shōjo manga by Chika Shiomi
- Canon, Georgia, a city in Franklin County, Georgia, United States
- Cañon or canyon, a deep valley between cliffs
Canon may also be used for:
- Canon law
- Biblical canon
- Taoist canon or Daozang
- Tibetan Buddhist canon
- Chinese classic texts or Chinese canonical texts
- Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture
- Canon of the Mass, the prayer of consecration in the mass
- Canons Regular, a religious order of men who are usually priests who live in community
- The Canon of Medicine, a medical text written by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Film canon, the limited number of masterpieces by which all other films are judged