canonical form
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A standard or normal presentation of a mathematical entity or a text string, etc.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Any of a set of representations of the resonance structure of a molecule each of which contributes to the real structure; a contributing structure.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A canonical form is an element of a set of representatives of equivalence classes of forms such that there is a function or procedure which projects every element of each equivalence class onto that one element, the canonical form of that equivalence class. The canonical form is expected to be simpler than the rest of the forms in some way. For example, for cubic polynomials acted upon by the group of translations along the abscissa, the canonical forms are cubic polynomials without a quadratic term."