See mirror canon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "mirror canons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mirror canon (plural mirror canons)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Music",
"orig": "en:Music",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A canon in which the leading voice is played alongside its own inversion, i.e. upside down."
],
"id": "en-mirror_canon-en-noun-NTOxxH1J",
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) A canon in which the leading voice is played alongside its own inversion, i.e. upside down."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "mirror fugue"
},
{
"word": "crab canon"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "canon by contrary motion"
}
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
"word": "mirror canon"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "mirror canons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mirror canon (plural mirror canons)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "mirror fugue"
},
{
"word": "crab canon"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"A canon in which the leading voice is played alongside its own inversion, i.e. upside down."
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) A canon in which the leading voice is played alongside its own inversion, i.e. upside down."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "canon by contrary motion"
}
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
"word": "mirror canon"
}
Download raw JSONL data for mirror canon meaning in English (0.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.