kanon
1. kanon
a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time [delskica, v kateri glasovi drug za drugim sledijo drug drugemu; eden začne in drugi se mu pridružijo eden za drugim, dokler vsi ne pojejo različne dele pesmi istočasno]
2. kanon
a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired [zbirka knjig, ki se sprejema kot svetopisemsko besedilo, zlasti knjige Svetega pisma, ki jih vsaka krščanska cerkev priznava kot resnične in navdihnjene.]
3. kanon
a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church [popolni seznam svetnikov, ki jih je priznala rimska katoliška cerkev]
4. kanon
a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts [Kontrapunktno glasbeno delo, pri katerem je melodyja iz enega dela glasu natančno posneta v drugih delih.]