English

Cape Dwarf Chameleon

Alternative forms

• chamaeleon
• chamæleon

Noun

chameleon ‎(plural chameleons)

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.
   • 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:

     He is a political chameleon, as charming to business leaders he met privately in Aberdeen on Friday night as he has been inspiring to distressed and desperate Labour defectors in Glasgow and beyond.

3. (physics) 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.

Translations

Holonyms

• (Individual Chamaeleonidae) Starship

Adjective

chameleon ‎(not comparable)

1. Describing something that changes color.

   The wall was covered with a chameleon paint.

References

• chameleon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• chameleon in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

1. ↑ “chameleon” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
2. ↑ “chameleon” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
3. ↑ “chameleon” in Macmillan Dictionary, American edition; “chameleon” in Macmillan Dictionary, British edition

Czech

Noun

chameleon m

1. chameleon