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If something can have a number of variant forms such as a file name or an URL (Uniform Resource Locator), the canonical form is the most official, standard, universal, complete, unambiguous, simple, understood, tidy — ideal. Computer scientists borrowed the term from mathematicians who in turn borrowed from the church where it means according to the church canons (laws).
canonical encoding names
canonical Java keyword order
File.getCanonicalPath
interned Strings
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