noncanonical
Americanadjective
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not included within a canon or group of rules.
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not belonging to the canon of Scripture.
Etymology
Origin of noncanonical
Example Sentences
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The show left the air in 2016, after its ninth season, a virtual spin-off that has been declared noncanonical.
From Los Angeles Times
A monk named Paschalis devotes his life to a biography of the noncanonical saint Wilgefortis, a venerated Christian noblewoman who grew a beard to vouchsafe her chastity.
So they teamed up with gene annotation specialist Jonathan Mudge of GENCODE, the database of officially recognized genes, and ultimately recruited several dozen other researchers from 20 institutions across four continents to help assess how many human noncanonical ORFs exist.
From Science Magazine
By 2022, the scientists had tracked down 7264 noncanonical ORFs in the human genome.
From Science Magazine
All told, they confirmed that one-quarter of the 7264 noncanonical ORFs they had tallied made proteins, some 3000 in all.
From Science Magazine
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