semicanonical

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ canonical.

Adjective

semicanonical (not comparable)

1. Having a status approaching canonical.
   • 2000, Kuśa Satyendra, Dictionary of Hindu Literature, page 39:

     Based on some of the vast semicanonical narrative literature, we may note Ksemendra's collection of avadanas (qv) because the author was not a Buddhist [...]

   • 2014, Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech, The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:

     Accorded a semicanonical status similar to that of the works of Bhai Gurdas, Nand Lal's Persian compositions (trans. Bawa 2006) are much simpler than the elaborately mannered Persian poetry favoured in the courtly circles [...]

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   • 2015, Jie Ren, Yan Soibelman, “Cohomological Hall algebras, semicanonical bases and Donaldson-Thomas invariants for $2$-dimensional Calabi-Yau categories”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We discuss semicanonical bases from the point of view of Cohomological Hall algebras via the "dimensional reduction" from 3-dimensional Calabi-Yau categories to 2-dimensional ones.