(obsolete, rare) The part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.

plural of canon bit

plural of canon bone

(anatomy) The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals.

plural of minor canon

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

(fandom slang) Secondary material, such as official novels based on a television series, that may or may not be regarded as canon.

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

(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).