- samskara by Dakota Mitchell
... . The most generally accepted list of 16 traditional samskaras includes ceremonies for conception, a male birth, name-giving, the upanayana, and marriage. There is also a body of noncanonical samskaras performed by and for the benefit of women.
- Apocrypha by Diana Howell
... are Tobit, Judith, Baruch, and the Maccabees as well as Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon. Protestant churches follow Jewish tradition in judging these works apocryphal or noncanonical. The term deuterocanonical is used to refer to works accepted in one canon but not all. Pseudepigrapha are spurious works for which biblical authorship is claimed.
- Extranormal Phonetics by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
the branch of phonetics that studies special noncanonical sound production that is not considered part of normal speech, that is, speech directed toward communicating linguistic information.The sphere of extranormal phonetics includes sounds that do not have corresponding ...
- Pali Literature by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... and magic rites.Outstanding noncanonical works include the Milindapanha, a masterpiece of philosophical literature composed no earlier than the late second century, and the Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa, and Culavamsa, historical chronicles that recount events in the history of Sri Lanka.Pali literature flourished in Sri Lanka from the fifth century, with an enormous literature ...
- Genetic Code by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... about 20 rare (so-called noncanonical) bases as well as unusual sugars. Because the number of coding signs (four) and number of varieties of amino acids in protein (20) do not coincide, the code number (that is, the number of nucleotides that code one amino acid) cannot equal 1. There can only be 4 2 = 16 different dinucleotide combinations, but this too is not ...