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canton
Political subdivision of Switzerland, France, and some other European countries. Each of Switzerland's 26 cantons and half-cantons has its own constitution, legislature, executive, and judiciary. Five preserve the ancient democratic assembly, in which all citizens meet; the remaining 21 have a cantonal legislature with elective representatives and usually proportional representation. In France, the canton is a territorial and administrative subdivision of an arrondissement but not an actual unit of local government.
cannon
Big gun, howitzer, or mortar, as distinguished from a musket, rifle, or other small arms. Huge artillery first appeared in Europe in the 15th cent. These early cannons, smooth-bored and forged of iron, weighed 6,000-8,000 lbs (2,800-3,600 kg) and were loaded through the muzzle. They were mounted on wheeled carriages, which were thrown backward when the cannon was fired. Rifled bores and breechloading were adopted in the later 19th cent., and new mechanisms such as the hydraulic buffer absorbed the recoil. Before 1850 ammunition was either cannister, grapeshot, or round, solid cannonballs and black powder, but rifled bores made possible the use of elongated projectiles, which had a longer range. The shrapnel shell was widely used in the 19th-20th cent. Modern cannons, of high-grade steel, are mounted on wheeled carriages or on tanks and aircraft. In 1953 the U.S. Army introduced a 280-mm gun called an atomic cannon, the first to fire atomic-explosive shells.
canon
Musical form and compositional technique in which an melody is imitated at a specified time interval by one or more parts, either at the same pitch or at some other pitch. Imitation may occur in the same note values, in augmentation (longer notes), or in diminution (shorter notes); in retrograde order (beginning at its end), mirror inversion (each ascending melodic interval becoming a descending interval, and vice versa), or retrograde mirror inversion; and so on. Canons range from folk rounds such as "Three Blind Mice" and "Frè re Jacques" to the massively complex canons of J. S. Bach.
Cantor
German mathematician, founder of set theory. A student of K. Weierstrass in Berlin, he wrote his doctoral thesis at age 22. His work in number theory built on that of C. F. Gauss. Set theory and transfinite numbers were his major life's work. One of his most important discoveries was a way to list the rational numbers so as to prove them countable. His investigations into such listings led him to the classification of transfinite numbers, which are, informally speaking, degrees of infinity. Cantor's work was fundamental to the development of functional analysis and topology, as well as to the philosophy of mathematics, in particular regarding the question "What is a number?"
cantor
In Judaism and Christianity, an ecclesiastical official in charge of music or chants. In Judaism, ...
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