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precanonical en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + canonical.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Prior to the development of a religious canon.
    • There was a Jesus-cult in precanonical times, when Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were demigods and had not been reduced to human dimensions. 1917, Granville Stanley Hall, Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology, volume 1, page 189:
  2. (not-comparable) In raw form, before conversion to a canonical form.
    • We also argue that the normalizability of precanonical wave functions with respect to the scalar product, which involves an operator-valued invariant measure on the space of spin connection coefficients, leads to the quantum avoidance of curvature singularities. 2015, I.V. Kanatchikov, “On the "Spin-Connection Foam" Picture of Quantum Gravity from Precanonical Quantization”, in arXiv:

Synonyms

precanon