What is "jaguar"

Jaguar \Ja*guar"\, n. [Braz. yago['a]ra: cf. & Pg. jaguar.] (Zo["o]l.) A large and powerful feline animal ( Panthera onca, formerly Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. It is also called the panther and the American tiger.

big cat of the Americas (Felis onca), c.1600, from Portuguese jaguar, from Tupi jaguara, said to be a name "denoting any larger beast of prey" [Klein]. Also a type of British-made car; in this sense the abbreviation Jag is attested from 1959.

n. A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, ''Panthera onca''.

n. a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis [syn: panther, Panthera onca, Felis onca]

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Americas. The jaguar's present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina. Apart from a known and possibly breeding population in Arizona (southeast of Tucson) and the bootheel of New Mexico, the cat has largely been extirpated from the United States since the early 20th century.

This spotted cat most closely resembles the leopard physically, although it is usually larger and of sturdier build and its behavioral and habitat characteristics are closer to those of the tiger. While dense rainforest is its preferred habitat, the jaguar will range across a variety of forested and open terrains. Its preferred habitats are usually swamps and wooded regions, but jaguars also live in scrublands and deserts. The jaguar is notable, along with the tiger, as a feline that enjoys swimming. The jaguar is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and-ambush predator at the top of the food chain (an apex predator). It is a keystone species, playing an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating the populations of the animals it hunts. The jaguar has an exceptionally powerful bite, even relative to the other big cats. This allows it to pierce the shells of armored reptiles and to employ an unusual killing method: it bites directly through the skull of prey between the ears to deliver a fatal bite to the brain.

The jaguar is a near threatened species and its numbers are declining. Threats include loss and fragmentation of habitat. While international trade in jaguars or their parts is prohibited, the cat is still frequently killed by humans, particularly in conflicts with ranchers and farmers in South America. Although reduced, its range remains large. Given its historical distribution, the jaguar has featured prominently in the mythology of numerous indigenous American cultures, including those of the Maya and Aztec.

A jaguar is a large cat native to South and Central America.

Jaguar may also refer to:

Sérgio Jaguaribe (born February 29, 1932), known as Jaguar, is a Brazilian cartoonist and comics artist. He was born in Rio de Janeiro.

Jagúar (pronounced ) is a funk band formed in 1998 in Reykjavík, Iceland. They went international in 2000, when they performed at the "1000 years since the Vikings found America" celebration in New York. The band gained critical acclaim for their second album, Get the Funk Out, which won the Icelandic Music Awards' 2001 "Album of the Year". The band and its many current and former members continue to be active in the Icelandic jazz scene.

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Jaguar, in comics, may refer to:

• Jaguar (Marvel Comics), a SHIELD supervillain
• Jaguar (Insurgent Comix), a superheroine created by artist Laura Molina
• Jaguar (Archie Comics), a character from Archie Comics revamped by Impact Comics

Jaguar is a young adult adventure novel by Roland Smith, first published by Hyperion Books in 1997. It is the sequel to the book Thunder Cave, (also published by Hyperion Books).

Jaguar is a 1979 Filipino drama film directed by Lino Brocka. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

The Jaguar is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine created by artist Laura Molina and published under her privately owned Insurgent Comix imprint. The character, created in response to California's 1994 passage of proposition 187, made her first appearance in Cihualyaomiquiz, The Jaguar #1 (1996).

The Jaguar's secret identity is that of Linda Rivera, an East Los Angeles law student. Linda lives in an alternate timeline in which proposition 187 has transformed California in to a police state ruled by right-wing fundamendalist groups, which enact the removal of equal employment and affirmative action policies. People of color are consistently denied civil rights while racist hate groups are allowed to proliferate throughout the state. Tired of seeing her people persecuted, Rivera dons the mantle of Cihualyaomiquiz, a term from the Aztec language translated as "Woman ready to die in battle" and becomes a vigilante known as The Jaguar. She is assisted by local activists groups and makes use of her fighting ability, detective skills and knowledge of the law in her pursuit of social justice.

The Jaguar (also called Jabiru {stork}) was a three-stage British sounding rocket built in several versions.

The first stage of the Jabiru Mk.1 was 5.6 m long and had a takeoff weight of 1,170 kilograms, of which about 866 kilograms were fuel. The second stage of the Jabiru Mk.1 weighed 292 kilograms, of which 184 kilograms were allotted to fuel. The third stage contained 26 kilograms of fuel. In all stages solid fuel was used. The complete rocket was 12 meters long. The Jabiru Mk.1 was launched several times between 1960 and 1964 at the aerospace testing area at Woomera, South Australia.

The follow-up version, the Jabiru Mk.2, contained an improved starting stage and a second stage with 307 kilograms of fuel as well as a third stage with 190 kilograms fuel. The Jabiru Mk.2 was launched ten times at Woomera between 1964 and 1970. This rocket was replaced by the Jabiru Mk.3 which used a modified first stage of the Jabiru Mk.2 as second stage, while the first stage remained unchanged. No third stage was used on the Mk.3. The Jabiru Mk.3 was used for re-entry experiments between 1971 and 1974.

Jaguar is an ab initio quantum chemistry package for both gas and solution phase calculations, with strength in treating metal-containing systems. It is commercial software marketed by the company Schrödinger. The program was originated in research groups of Richard Friesner and William Goddard and was initially called PS-GVB (referring to the so-called pseudospectral generalized valence bond method that the program featured).

Jaguar is an essential component of two other Schrödinger products. The program Maestro provides the graphical user interface to Jaguar, and a QM/MM program QSite uses Jaguar as its quantum-chemical engine.

Jaguar was a petascale supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The massively parallel Jaguar had a peak performance of just over 1,750 teraFLOPS (1.75 petaFLOPS). It had 224,256 x86-based AMD Opteron processor cores, and operated with a version of Linux called the Cray Linux Environment. Jaguar was a Cray XT5 system, a development from the Cray XT4 supercomputer.

In both November 2009 and June 2010, TOP500, the semiannual list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, named Jaguar as the world's fastest computer. In late October 2010, the BBC reported that the Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-1A had taken over the top spot, achieving over 2.5 quadrillion calculations per second, thereby bumping Jaguar to second place. The November 2010 TOP500 list confirmed the new rankings.

In 2012 the Cray XT5 Jaguar was upgraded to the Cray XK7 Titan hybrid supercomputing system by adding the Gemini network interconnect and fitting 960 of the nodes with Fermi-based Nvidia GPUs.

Jaguar is a 1994 Greek drama film directed by Katerina Evangelakou. It was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival.

Jaguar is a 1956 American adventure film directed by George Blair and written by John Fenton Murray and Benedict Freedman. The film stars Sabu, Chiquita Johnson, Barton MacLane, Jonathan Hale, Mike Connors and Jay Novello. The film was released on January 20, 1956, by Republic Pictures.

Jaguar is 2016 bilingual , produced by H. D. Kumaraswamy under his banner Channambika Films and directed by Mahadev. It features Nikhil Gowda, Deepti Sati in the lead roles and music composed by S. Thaman. Fights are choreographed by Ram-Lakshman masters.

The Jaguar is a superhero published by Archie Comics. He was created by writer Robert Bernstein and artist John Rosenberger as part of Archie's " Archie Adventure Series", before that line was camped up as part of their Mighty Comics line. He would actually appear two years after The Fly did.

The Jaguar is actually zoologist Ralph Hardy. While on a dig in Peru (Hardy, like most Silver Age heroes, was a man of many interests and talents including archeology), a giant serpent burst forth from the ground and began terrorizing the area. While the others fled Hardy followed a rare white jaguar into a ruined temple and found a series of cave drawings depicting the ancient Incas battling the same monster as well as a mystical "nucleon energy belt". The round golden buckle of the belt had the engraved image of a winged jaguar on the front and on the back an inscription which read: "He who loves the animal kingdom may wear this belt and be transformed into a human jaguar." Hardy put on the belt and instantly transformed into the Jaguar.

As the Jaguar he possessed, in addition to the expected feline abilities, all the powers of the animal kingdom only a thousand times more powerful (the oft-quoted magnified toughness of a rhinoceros' hide, for example, gave him near Superman level invulnerability), plus he had the Aquaman-style telepathic ability to mentally communicate with and command all animals including those from alien worlds.

The Jaguar wore a simple skintight scarlet bodysuit with a flared black collar and the stylized suggestion of a feline face (just the eyes, whiskers and open mouth) on the chest and jaguar pelt-patterned boots and nucleon belt, the latter with two small rocket packs on either side which gave him the power of supersonic flight. He wore no mask and looked exactly like Ralph Hardy, except that Hardy had a mustache and the Jaguar didn't (although post-Silver Age artists tend to give the latter pointed ears and a more cat ear-like hairstyle which make him vaguely resemble a cross between the Sub-Mariner and the movie version of Wolverine).

In many ways, the Jaguar was a copy of the Fly: magic belt instead of magic ring, powers of the animal kingdom rather than insect kingdom, etc.

Unlike the Fly, however, the handsome Jaguar had many recurring romantic interests, including the immortal feline sorceress Cat Girl who had command over the cat kingdom just as he ruled over the entire animal kingdom (also known as the Sphinx, she originally had fought the Fly, but it was quickly realized that she would make a more fitting foe for the Jaguar), the green-skinned and white-haired undersea siren Kree-Nal, and Hardy's secretary Jill Ross who, like Pete Ross, secretly knew that Hardy was her beloved hero the Jaguar and used that knowledge to help him without him knowing it. Nor were these relationships static, for in later stories Jill left to study to become a nurse so that she could better assist Hardy in the veterinary side of his work, and Cat Girl lost her magic powers due to exposure to Strontium 90 radiation from atomic testing, retaining only her telepathic mastery over cats as she took on the new mortal identity of jet-set socialite Lydia Fellin whose "family fortune" was actually the vast treasure trove that she had gathered over the centuries.

The Jaguar appeared in 15 issues of The Adventures of the Jaguar, as well as backup stories in several other Archie comics (Jughead Jones Comic Digest 7; Laugh Comics 127, 130, 131, 133, 135, 140-142, 144; Laugh Comics Digest 25, 27; Pep Comics 150, 152, 157, 159, 168), and would show up in The Adventures of the Fly #23. When the "Archie Adventure Series" line was canceled and camped up as Archie's Mighty Comics line, The Jaguar only made brief appearances in Mighty Crusaders #4 and 5. In #5, The Jaguar would team up with Mr. Justice and Steel Sterling as the " Terrific Three".

The Jaguar would again appear as part of Archie's Red Circle Comics revamp in the 1980s, as a founding member of the new Mighty Crusaders, and get a backup series in The Fly (issues 4-9). In this incarnation it was revealed that the source of the Jaguar's powers was the cherubim-like pre-human god Varigon, Lord of the Animals, a towering golden-winged being with the three heads of a bird, lion and bull who had created the magic belt as a weapon to be worn by his mortal champion in his eternal battle against the scaly green lizard-headed S'ithh, Lord of the Reptiles who wanted the dinosaurs to rule the Earth once more and that the first person to have worn the belt in ancient times had been an Incan woman. It's also later revealed that Ralph is the brother of Rose Raymond, the wife of fellow superhero, The Web.

The most recent appearances of the Ralph Hardy Jaguar have been in cameos in Archie's Weird Mysteries #3 and 14 and a cover story crossover appearance in Sabrina the Teenage Witch # 30.

A teenage female version of the Jaguar, written by William Messner-Loebs, was used in DC Comics' Impact revamp of the Archie superheroes. She was naive and good-hearted Maria DeGuzman who came to North America from Rio de Janeiro to study at Elm Harbor University when to her surprise she inherited from her late aunt the werewolf-like ability to transform into the large, muscular, barefoot and green-eyed Jaguar. Despite wearing a similar if somewhat skimpier skintight red outfit, however, unlike her male namesake in this ferocious feline form her powers were limited to superhuman strength and agility combined with cat-like claws and senses. She eventually "married" the Impact version of the Fly at the end of the Crucible mini-series.

In the aftermath of the continuity-altering Final Crisis, DC comics once again licensed the Red Circle heroes, this time choosing to bring them directly into the DC Universe. In March 2010, a new Jaguar was set to appear in The Shield #5 and is apparently a Brazilian male who can transform into a red tattoo-covered were-jaguar.

In New Crusaders, the role of the Jaguar in the short-lived Red Circle digital comics universe was passed to Ralph Hardy's young apprentice Ivette "Ivy" Velez when the shy Spanish-speaking orphan was given the cat-like golden helmet of Ai Apaec to become the savage new Jaguar.

Arguably the wealthiest and most philanthropic artiste as quoted by Entertainment Magazines and Blogs in East Africa, Charles Njagua Kanyi is a Kenyan musician, Entrepreneur and known philanthropist. From humble beginnings, Jaguar was born in a family of three siblings. He grew up in the suburbs of Nairobi where he attended school. At the age of Eleven Jaguar lost his Mother who by then was the only Guardian. He was forced to enroll in informal employment working several odd jobs to earn a living.

Through struggles working as a tout in Nairobi's Matatus (Public Service Vehicles), and support from friends managed to complete school

Jaguar first made forays as a recording artiste in 2004 where he recorded and released his first Single. He later joined East Africa's music Power house Ogopa Deejays in 2005 where he recorded and released several singles among them his most popular hit single "kigeugeu." In 2013 Jaguar began recording with Main Switch Studios Founded by one of Jaguar's long serving producers – Philip Makanda formerly from Ogopa Deejays.

This transition didn’t come short of any releases and he has been a part of the stable to date. He has since recorded several hit Singles including Kipepeo, Kioo and One centimeter, An African collaboration featuring Popular Nigerian Artiste ( Iyanya). He has also featured popular south African Duo, Mafikizolo in his single titled "Going Nowhere"

Jaguar has over the years established his own enterprises that have now become very lucrative Businesses. Besides his music business, Jaguar owns a fleet of personal luxury cars and is known to have investments in Real Estate as well as the Transport and Aviation Industry.

Jaguar is an alcoholic energy drink widely popular and commonly available in many post-Soviet countries.

It is an industrially produced carbonated ready-to-drink cocktail by I.B.B. Ltd. ( London) since 2002. or by Happyland LLC ( Moscow).

Jaguar is known as being extremely popular among young people, despite the fact that its sale to minors is prohibited, and has a reputation for being often abused by gopniki delinquents. The manufacturer however claims beneficial qualities to their product in their advertising, emphasising the relatively low alcohol content of the Jaguar drink when compared with hard liquors, and also the benefits of other ingredients as vitamins as well as stimulants ( caffeine, taurine, etc.)

In East Slavic languages, it is usual to "translate" the name and call the beverage with "ягуар" spelling of " jaguar" word, used for the animal. It is also often referrd to as "Yaga" (related to Baba Yaga folk character) or even "Jaga", which led to official "Yaga" edition of the drink and "Jaga Fest", commemorated with limited "Jaga Fest" design of "original" flavour drink cans. Other, less common, nicknames include words "yasha" (short for Yakov) or "yagel" (ягель lichen).

In Ukraine, Jaguar beverage is produced as "Jaguaro".

In 2009, Jaguar was described as one of the leading brands of the Russian ready to drink beverage market, with a share of 8% of that market.

In 2010, the alcohol content of Jaguar was reduced from 9% to 7% in order to meet with new regulations regarding "beer and carbonated alcoholic produce" (although the 9% version is still being produced and marketed as "Jaguar Ultra", but it isn't produced by Russian manufacturers, available only via import from IBB's factories). However, Russian site feature "Ultra Light" version, which has 7,2% alcohol content. Alcohol-free versions of Jaguar drink, which use PETE bottles instead of aliminium bottles of same volume, are reported to exist since april 2014.

According to info from Jaguar-energy.ru, since 2015, design for beverage's cans has slogan "cила cвободы", which may be translated both as "power of freedom" and "strength of freedom".

The AMD Jaguar Family 16h is a low-power microarchitecture designed by AMD, and used in APUs succeeding the Bobcat Family microarchitecture in 2013 and being succeeded by AMD's Puma architecture in 2014. It is two-way superscalar and capable of out of order execution. It is used in AMD's Semi-Custom Business Unit as a design for custom processors and is used by AMD in four product families: Kabini aimed at notebooks and mini PCs, Temash aimed at tablets, Kyoto aimed at micro-servers, and the G-Series aimed at embedded applications. Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One use chips based on the Jaguar microarchitecture, with more powerful GPUs than AMD sells in its own commercially available Jaguar APUs.