What is "chameleon"

Chameleon \Cha*me"le*on\ (k[.a]*m[=e]"l[-e]*[u^]n), n. [L. Chamaeleon, Gr. chamaile`wn, lit., ``ground lion;'' chamai` on the ground + le`wn lion. See Humble, and Lion.] (Zo["o]l.)

1. A lizardlike reptile of the genus Cham[ae]leo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; it has eyes which can move separately, the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back. It is remarkable for its ability to change the color of its skin to blend with its surroundings. [Also sometimes spelled chamaeleon.]

   Note: Its color changes more or less with the color of the objects about it, or with its temper when disturbed. In a cool, dark place it is nearly white, or grayish; on admitting the light, it changes to brown, bottle-green, or blood red, of various shades, and more or less mottled in arrangment. The American chameleons belong to Anolis and allied genera of the family Iguanid[ae]. They are more slender in form than the true chameleons, but have the same power of changing their colors.

2. a person who changes opinions, ideas, or behavior to suit the prevailing social climate; an opportunist.

   Chameleon mineral (Chem.), the compound called potassium permanganate, a dark violet, crystalline substance, KMnO4, which in formation passes through a peculiar succession of color from green to blue, purple, red, etc. See Potassium permanganate, under Potassium.

mid-14c., camelion, from Old French caméléon, from Latin chamaeleon, from Greek khamaileon "the chameleon," from khamai "on the ground" (also "dwarf"), akin to chthon "earth" (see chthonic) + leon "lion" (see lion). Perhaps the large head-crest on some species was thought to resemble a lion's mane. The classical -h- was restored in English early 18c. Figurative sense of "variable person" is 1580s. It formerly was supposed to live on air (as in "Hamlet" III.ii.98).

a. Describing something that changes color. n. 1 A small to mid-size reptile, of the family ''Chamaeleonidae'', and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue. 2 A person with inconstant behavior; one able to quickly adjust to new circumstances. 3 (context physics English) A hypothetical scalar particle with a non-linear self-interaction, giving it an effective mass that depends on its environment: the presence of other fields.

1. n. a changeable or inconstant person

2. a faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Apus and Mensa [syn: Chamaeleon]

3. lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue [syn: chamaeleon]

Chameleons or chamaeleons ( family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015. These species come in a range of colors, and many species have the ability to change colors. Chameleons are distinguished by their zygodactylous feet; their very long, highly modified, rapidly extrudable tongues; their swaying gait; and crests or horns on their brow and snout. Most species, the larger ones in particular, also have a prehensile tail. Chameleons' eyes are independently mobile, but in aiming at a prey item, they focus forward in coordination, affording the animal stereoscopic vision. Chameleons are adapted for climbing and visual hunting. They live in warm habitats that range from rain forest to desert conditions, various species occurring in Africa, Madagascar, southern Europe, and across southern Asia as far as Sri Lanka. They also have been introduced to Hawaii, California, and Florida, and often are kept as household pets.

The Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Chameleon is a computer workstation design produced at ETH Zurich running the Oberon operating system.

It was also the name of an older luggable computer from the early 1980s, distinguished by being able to run both the MS-DOS and CP/M-80 operating systems.

A chameleon is an Old World lizard belonging to the family Chamaeleonidae.

Chameleon (or variants such as chamaeleon and cameleon) may also refer to:

Chameleon is the fifth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1993. It is their most musically adventurous release, but also their least commercially successful, and last studio album to feature singer Michael Kiske and original drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg.

"Chameleon" is the third and final segment of the second episode of the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Chameleon was a record label formed by producer, music entrepreneur and former Capitol Records A&R executive Stephen Powers, in association with Bob Marin, Managing Director of alternative rock importer Sounds True, and Richard Foos, co-founder of Rhino Records. An experienced indie label chief who previously founded Mountain Railroad Records and later Drive Entertainment, Powers quickly signed a distribution agreement with Capitol/ EMI, bought out Marin and Foos, and brought in Hyatt Hotel heir, Daniel Pritzker, as a financial partner.

Pritzker was also a musician and songwriter, whose band Sonia Dada, later scored a #1 pop hit in Australia titled "You Don't Treat Me No Good," on the Chameleon label through Festival Records. Powers staffed Chameleon Music Group with industry veterans like Andy Frances, Bill Meehan, and the company grew quickly with 2-tiered, major-label distribution for its flagship Chameleon label and independent distribution for its many alternative imprints.

In 1991, Chameleon was named Independent Label of the Year by National Association of Independent Distributors ( NAIRD), and Powers was named Independent Music Executive of the Year.

Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz was an employee, and Chameleon distributed his early Epitaph releases, such as L7's self-titled debut and T.S.O.L. Chameleon also distributed Minneapolis-based Twin/Tone Records and released the first albums by The Replacements, Soul Asylum and Hüsker Dü; punk label Posh Boy Records ( Black Flag, Agent Orange, Redd Kross, Rodney on the ROQ) and had a subsidiary of their own called Dali Records. Chameleon also acquired and relaunched the legendary Chicago Blues Soul label, Vee-Jay Records.

The label won a Grammy award for Best Contemporary Blues Recording for "I'm In The Mood," a duet by John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt from its 1990 release of Hooker's best-selling album, " The Healer", also featuring Carlos Santana, Robert Cray, Canned Heat, Los Lobos, Charlie Musslewhite, and others.

In the first years of the label's existence, Chameleon was distributed by Capitol/EMI in the USA, A&M Records of Canada, Festival Records in Australia, BMG in Europe, and various independent distributors. In the last years of the label's existence, Chameleon was distributed worldwide by Elektra Records.

Overall artists included the following: John Lee Hooker, Brandy, Kyuss, Dramarama, Lowen & Navarro, New Marines, Mary's Danish, Way Moves, Spooner (w/ Butch Vig, Duke Erikson), Sigmund Snopek III, Ecotour, Lucinda Williams, Ferron, and Bel Canto (on sub-label Dali Records).

Chameleon is an open source, distributed, highly configurable, environment for developing Web Mapping applications. It is built on MapServer as the core mapping engine and works with all MapServer supported data formats. It also works well with OpenGIS Consortium standards for Web Map Services WMS and Web Map Context Documents (WMC) through MapServer's support for these standards.

Chameleon was originally developed in 2002 by DM Solutions Group under contract to NRCan, in support of Canada's GeoConnections program, contributing to the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). Originally named "CWC2" (CGDI WMS Client Component), Chameleon was renamed once formally released to the open source community. CWC2 was developed in response to the growing number of WMS servers and lack of user friendly WMS clients in developing web mapping applications.

Chameleon has a plugin architecture. A large number of plugins, or widgets as they are called by the Chameleon developers, are available. A Chameleon widget can implement a mapping task such as zooming, panning, showing legends, or displaying map coordinates. Over a hundred widgets are distributed with the application and developers can easily create their own widget for any specific task.

Chameleon is written in the PHP scripting language with snippets of JavaScript code to handle browser functionality. The latest version as of September 6, 2007 was v2.6rc1.

Chameleon is released under the Prior BSD License.

Chameleon is the debut album by Norwegian singer Margaret Berger. It was released by BMG Norway on 4 October 2004, five months after she placed second on Norwegian Idol. The album did not receive an official single release, but the music video for the song "Lifetime Guarantee" was awarded a Spellemannprisen.

Chameleon is a 1995 direct-to-video film starring Anthony LaPaglia. The film is directed by Michael Pavone. Pavone wrote and produced the film with Dave Alan Johnson.

Chameleon is a financial thriller novel written by Richard Hains set during the subprime mortgage crisis.

Chameleon is a 1974 big band jazz album by Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. It features cover versions of many songs that were popular in the years leading up to its production, including: " Jet" by Paul McCartney and Wings, " The Way We Were" – which was popularized by Barbra Streisand, and " Livin’ for the City" by Stevie Wonder. He also pays tribute to trumpeter Bunny Berigan with his own take on " I Can't Get Started".

Chameleon is a 1972 album by The Four Seasons notable for being their only album recorded for Motown. The album met with limited success in the US; no single was even issued from the album in America. " The Night", however, met with success in the UK and peaked at No. 7 in 1975, becoming a Northern Soul mainstay.

Chameleon was a vocal group founded in 1989 by Ivor Novello Award-winning composer Nigel Hess, and featuring former Swingle Singers member Olive Simpson (soprano), Lindsay John (alto), Jeremy Taylor (tenor), Michael Dore (baritone) and David Beavan (bass). They were best known for performing the theme tunes to several British television programmes, in particular Summer's Lease, starring John Gielgud and Susan Fleetwood, and for their cover versions of popular folk music.

Chameleon's debut album Saylon Dola won the Music Retailers Association award for "Best MOR Vocal Album" and was re-issued in 2005 to celebrate the group's 15th anniversary. The title track, "Saylon Dola", was covered in 2001 on The Voice by Russell Watson and Máire Brennan, although the song was performed in Irish, translated by Máire Brennan, instead of the original glossolalia.

Chameleon is a late 1970s/early 1980s American rock band founded by Charlie Adams. Chameleon made Billboard charts and was renowned for Adams’ two-axis revolving, upside-down drum set, which he played in live concerts and on MTV. The band toured extensively (sponsored by the Miller Brewing Co.) performing up to 260 shows a year. Band members have included Adams, drums, vocals, and percussion; Yanni, keyboards and synthesizers; Dugan McNeill, lead vocals and bass guitars; Johnny Donaldson, all guitars; Mark Anthony, lead vocals and keyboards; Peter Diggins, lead vocals and main guitars; Donny Paulson, guitars, vocals.

"Chameleon" is a jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock in collaboration with Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson and Harvey Mason, all of whom also performed the original 15'44" version on the 1973 landmark album Head Hunters featuring solos by Hancock and Maupin.

The song has a characteristic bass line and is set to a funk beat. For the most part, the song is built entirely on a two-chord vamp: a I-IV in B Dorian (Bm7 and E7).

The piece is one of the most widely recognized jazz standards, and has become standard repertoire in most small jazz ensembles. It has been performed by many notable artists, including Maceo Parker, Buddy Rich, Stanley Jordan, Big Sam's Funky Nation, Maynard Ferguson, Eddie Jefferson, Gov't Mule, Monty Alexander with Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, Michał Urbaniak, The String Cheese Incident, Umphrey's McGee, James Morrison, Vivid Vacuum, Four o'clock Tuesday, ErenGencOkan Trio, Kâmil Sextette, The Bitter End All Star Jam Band, The Boat Exclusion, The Music Circle (a 1970s Barbados spouge version) and many others.

The piece's signature funky bass line was played by Hancock on an ARP Odyssey, as was one of the keyboard solos. The other keyboard solo was played on a Fender/Rhodes piano.

Category:1970s jazz standards Category:Jazz fusion standards

is a Japanese manga series created by Atsushi Kase which was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 1990 and 1999; forty-seven tankōbon were released. The manga won the twenty-third round of the Kodansha Manga Award in 1999 for shōnen manga, beating out titles such as One Piece and Karakuri Circus. The series follows the antics of tenth-grade student Eisaku Yazawa who wants to become a bōsōzoku.

It was adapted into an OVA series consisting of six 50-minute episodes running from 1992 to 1996 produced by Tanaka Productions. The first two episodes were directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto, the third was by Hiromichi Matano, the fourth by Ken Bluestem, and the last two by scriptwriter Takao Yotsuji. The first episode was released in America by ADV Films as Bite Me! Chameleon in 1998 It was also adapted into a live action film directed by Noboru Matsui and starring Hosei Yamazaki as Eisaku Yazawa in 1996.

In 2008, Fairy Tail's Hiro Mashima drew a one-shot remake of Chameleon for the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shōnen Magazine. A pachinko game called CR Chameleon was released in 2008 by Taiyo Elec. Chameleon Seven Years After was published through Weekly Shōnen Magazine on 6 November 2013. A sequel titled started to be serialized in the following issue. It has spawned two tankōbon volumes published on 16 May, and 17 July 2014.

The manga has sold over 30 million copies as of January 2011.

Chameleon is a stealth-action video game developed by Silver Wish Games. It was released in 2005. The game was released in a limited number of countries. It has never been released on western markets. The development was already finished in 2003 but it was published in 2005.

"Chameleon" is a song performed by Maltese singer Ira Losco. Originally, the song would have represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. However, the Maltese broadcaster TVM later changed it to " Walk on Water".

Chameleon (pronounced Sha-meiel-e-n) is a character from the television series Battlestar Galactica, appearing in the installment " The Man with Nine Lives." He was an older gentleman, well versed in the art of flattery and misdirection, which he used to con unsuspecting Colonists out of the things he needed to survive. He is first introduced on a transport, talking with Siress Blassie, one of the older ladies, who appeared to be better off than most fleeing Colonists and whom he was probably setting up as a " mark." When the attendant asks him for his transportation ducat, he implies that he is a talent scout for the Fleet broadcast show "Heroes of the Fleet," which he was just watching about Lt. Starbuck, saying that "ordinary" people, such as the attendant himself, should be interviewed. After saying that the man should report to the broadcast ship upon the completion of his duty round, Chameleon tells him "I already gave you my ducat, remember?" to which the man agrees.

Chameleon cons Lieutenant Starbuck into thinking he might be Starbuck's father to aid him is escaping the Borelian Nomen, whom Chameleon, using the alias "Captain Dimitri," had conned into thinking he could obtain spare parts for the Viper they were building. When they take a simple genetic test, a possible connection is found, and Starbuck starts to make plans to leave the fleet to be with his "father." Later, when his con--and the fact that "Chameleon" is indeed his real name--is exposed, Chameleon tells Starbuck he got the information about him by watching the Fleet broadcast earlier. Just after this, Cassiopeia tells Chameleon that a more detailed test shows that he actually is Starbuck's father. Chameleon swears her to secrecy, saying he will tell Starbuck some day, perhaps on the day Starbuck gets sealed (married). Cassiopeia laughs it off, scoffing, "Starbuck getting sealed?!? Never!" But Chameleon says, "Don't be too sure."

The character of Chameleon was played by Fred Astaire, for whom one of the producers of Battlestar Galactica, Donald P. Bellisario, specifically wrote the installment "The Man with Nine Lives."

Chameleon does not appear in the re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica.

Chameleon is the sixth album by American singing trio Labelle. Though Patti LaBelle's autobiography Don't Block The Blessings revealed that LaBelle planned a follow-up to Chameleon entitled Shaman, the album never materialized. The trio would not release another new recording until 2008's Back to Now. The final album was moderately successful peaking at #94 at the Pop charts and #21 on the R&B charts. Only two singles made the charts which were "Get You Somebody New" which peaked at #50 on the Pop charts and their memorable song "Isn't It A Shame" which debuted at #18 on the R&B charts. "Isn't It A Shame" was later sampled by Nelly on his 2004 hit, " My Place", which featured Jaheim.

The Retro Chameleon (originally called the Retro VGS then Coleco Chameleon prior to the loss of the Coleco license) is a cancelled video game console. Its creators have stated that it was inspired by the Second to Fifth Generations (1976-1999) of home video game consoles, and like most consoles of those generations, the Retro VGS was planned to run all of its games on individual cartridges, as opposed to optical discs and digital download. The Retro VGS was not expected to support any manner of online connectivity whatsoever, meaning all hardware and software released would have been the final product, and would not have been updated after release. A Kickstarter campaign was initially planned to raise funds for the project, but this was later moved to Indiegogo one week before the start of the campaign when a physical prototype was not produced.

On March 8, 2016, Retro VGS pulled down their online social media presence after Coleco Holdings had withdrawn their support and involvement from the project.