precanonical

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ canonical

Adjective

precanonical (not comparable)

1. Prior to the development of a religious canon.
   • 1917, Granville Stanley Hall, Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology, volume 1, page 189:

     There was a Jesus-cult in precanonical times, when Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were demigods and had not been reduced to human dimensions.

2. (mathematics) In raw form, before conversion to a canonical form.
   • 2015, I.V. Kanatchikov, “On the "Spin-Connection Foam" Picture of Quantum Gravity from Precanonical Quantization”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We also argue that the normalizability of precanonical wave functions with respect to the scalar product, which involves an operator-valued invariant measure on the space of spin connection coefficients, leads to the quantum avoidance of curvature singularities.