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Nikon
Nikon Corporation (株式会社ニコン, Kabushiki-gaisha Nikon) (UK: or US: ; listen [ɲikoɴ]), also known just as Nikon, is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging products.
Nikon’s products include cameras, camera lenses, binoculars, microscopes, ophthalmic lenses, measurement instruments, rifle scopes, spotting scopes, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which it is the world’s second largest manufacturer. The company is the eighth-largest chip equipment maker as reported in 2017. The companies held by Nikon form the Nikon Group. Among its products are Nikkor imaging lenses (for F-mount cameras, large format photography, photographic enlargers, and other applications), the Nikon F-series of 35 mm film SLR cameras, the Nikon D-series of digital SLR cameras, the Coolpix series of compact digital cameras, and the Nikonos series of underwater film cameras. Nikon’s main competitors in camera and lens manufacturing include Canon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Pentax, and Olympus.
Founded on July 25, 1917 as Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha (日本光学工業株式会社 “Japan Optical Industries Co., Ltd.”), the company was renamed to Nikon Corporation, after its cameras, in 1988. Nikon is a member of the Mitsubishi group of companies (keiretsu).
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Canon (noun)
A generally accepted principle; a rule.
“The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.”
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Canon (noun)
A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
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The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
“the entire Shakespeare canon”
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A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
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A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
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A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
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In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
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Canon (noun)
A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
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A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
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A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
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Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
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A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.
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A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
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The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
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A carom.
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A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
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A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
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Canon (noun)
archaic spelling of canyon