chameleon Chameleons or chamaeleons (Family (biology), family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 200 species described as of June 2015. The members of this Family (biology), family are best known for ...

is an Old World lizard belonging to the family Chamaeleonidae. Chameleon (or variants such as chamaeleon and cameleon) may also refer to:

Literature

* ''Chameleon'' (novel), a financial thriller novel by Richard Hains * Chameleon, a character from the 1977 Piers Anthony novel ''

A Spell for Chameleon ''A Spell for Chameleon'' is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, published in 1977 by Ballantine Books/Del Rey Books. It is the first book of the Xanth series. Plot introduction In this adventure, Bink is exiled to Mundan ...

'' * "The Chameleon" (short story), an 1884 short story by Anton Chekhov * ''The Chameleon'' (magazine), 1894 magazine

Comics

Chameleon (Marvel Comics) The Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov; Russian: Дмитрий Смердяков) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, the character first appeared in the ...

, a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain * ''Chameleon'' (manga), a 1990 Japanese manga series *

Reep Daggle Reep Daggle, also known as Chameleon Boy and Chameleon, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, primarily as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. Reep Daggle as Chameleon Boy ha ...

or Chameleon, a fictional DC Comics superhero

Computing

Cameleon (programming language) Cameleon is a free and open source graphical language for functional programming, released under an MIT License. Cameleon language is a graphical data flow language following a two-scale paradigm. It allows an easy up-scale, that is, the integ ...

* Chameleon, a suite of TCP/IP client applications from

NetManage NetManage Inc. was a software company based in Cupertino, California, founded in 1990 by Zvi Alon, an Israeli engineer. The company's development centre was located at the MATAM technology park, in Haifa, Israel. In June 2008 the company was ac ...

* Chameleon (computing), a computer workstation * Chameleon botnet

Film

Characters

* The Chameleon, main antagonist of '' Kung Fu Panda 4''

Shows

* ''Cameleon'' (film), a 1997 British film * ''Chameleon'' (1995 film), American film * ''Chameleon'' (1998 film), American TV film * ''Chameleon'' (2008 Hungarian film) * ''Chameleon'' (2008 Japanese film) * ''Chameleon'' (2016 film), Chilean film * ''The Chameleon'' (1920 film), a silent comedy film * ''The Chameleon'' (2010 film), film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé * ''The Chameleon'', a 1989 adult film by John Leslie

Television

Characters

* Chameleon (''Battlestar Galactica''), a character from ''Battlestar Galactica'' * The Chameleon, the antagonist of "Scooby's Gold Medal Gambit", episode 6 of ''The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show'' (1983) * The Chameleon, a character from '' T.U.F.F. Puppy'' * The Chameleon, a Kaiju clone character from '' Godzilla: The Series'' * The Chameleons, characters in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''

The Faceless Ones ''The Faceless Ones'' is the Doctor Who missing episodes, mostly missing eighth serial of the Doctor Who (season 4), fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts fro ...

Episodes

Games

* ''Chameleon'' (2005 video game), a stealth-action video game * ''The Chameleon'' (party game), a 2017 deception game * Chameleon (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a prestige class in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' * Chameleon (''G.I. Joe''), a fictional in the ''G.I. Joe'' universe * Chameleon (''Mortal Kombat''), a character in the ''Mortal Kombat'' video game series * '' Chameleon: To Dye For!'', a 2008 video game by Starfish SD * Chameleon (video game console), a cancelled game console

Music

The Chameleon Club The Chameleon Club was a music venue located in the historic downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. History Founded by Rich Ruoff and Alexandra Brown in 1985, the Chameleon Club was originally located in the back room of a prominent fine dining resta ...

, a music venue in Lancaster, Pennsylvania *

Chameleon (label) 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 Good, and Richard Foos, co-founder ...

Artists

Chameleon (American band) Chameleon was an American rock band active from the late 1970s through the early 1980s . It was founded by Charlie Adams. Chameleon made Billboard charts and was renowned for Adams’ two-axis revolving, upside-down drum set, which he played ...

, a 1970s American band * Chameleon (Anglo-Canadian band), a country-rock quartet formed in 1975 * Chameleon (British band), a British vocal group founded in 1989 by Nigel Hess * Jose Chameleone (born 1979), Ugandan musician *

The Chameleons The Chameleons are an English rock band formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester, in 1981. The band's classic line-up consisted of bassist and vocalist Mark Burgess (now known as Vox), guitarists Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding, and drummer Jo ...

, a UK post-punk band

Albums

* ''Caméléon'' (album), a 2012 album by Shy'm * ''Chameleon'' (EP), a 2017 EP by Grey * ''Chameleon'' (Margaret Berger album) * ''Chameleon'' (Maynard Ferguson album), 1974 * ''Chameleon'' (The Four Seasons album), 1972 * ''Chameleon'' (Helloween album), 1993 * ''Chameleon'' (Labelle album) * ''Chameleon'' (Måns Zelmerlöw album) * ''Chameleon'', a 1980 album by Tiny Tim

Songs

* "Caméléon" (song), by Maître Gims * "Chameleon" (Ira Losco song), 2015 * "Chameleon" (King Gnu song), 2022 * "Chameleon" (Michela Pace song), a 2019 song that represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest * "Chameleon" (Pnau song), 2016 * "Chameleon" (composition), a 1973 song by Herbie Hancock from ''Head Hunters'' * "Chameleon", a 1970 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival from ''

Pendulum A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate i ...

'' * "Chameleon", a video-single by Metis (American musician) * "Chameleon", a 1976 song by Elton John from ''

Blue Moves ''Blue Moves'' is the eleventh studio album by English musician Elton John. It was released on 22 October 1976 through John's own Rocket Record Company (his first for the label), alongside MCA Records in certain countries. John's second double ...

'' * "Chaneleon", a 2008 song by Brendan Canning from '' Something for All of Us...'' * "Chameleon", a 2015 song by

Hardwell Robbert van de Corput (; born 7 January 1988), known professionally as Hardwell, is a Dutch DJ and music producer from Breda. He was voted the world's number one DJ by ''DJ Mag'' in 2013 and again in 2014. In 2022, he was ranked at number 43 in ...

and Wiwek

Science

Cameleon (protein) Cameleon is an engineered protein based on variant of green fluorescent protein used to visualize calcium levels in living cells. It is a genetically encoded calcium sensor created by Roger Y. Tsien and coworkers. The name is a conflation of CaM ( ...

, an artificial protein *

Chamaeleon Chamaeleon () is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It is named after the chameleon, a kind of lizard. It was first defined in the 16th century. History Chamaeleon was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius f ...

, a constellation * ''Chamaeleon'' (plant), a genus of plants *

Chameleon particle The chameleon is a hypothetical scalar particle that couples to matter more weakly than gravity, postulated as a dark energy candidate. Due to a non-linear self-interaction, it has a variable effective mass which is an increasing function of the ...

, a hypothetical elementary particle * American chameleon or Carolina anole (''Anolis carolinensis''), a species of arboreal lizard

Other uses

Chamaeleon (philosopher) Chamaeleon (or Chameleon; ; c. 350 – c. 275 BC), was a Peripatetic philosopher of Heraclea Pontica. He was one of the immediate disciples of Aristotle. He wrote works on several of the ancient Greek poets, namely: *περὶ Ἀνακρέοντ ...

(c. 350 – c. 275 BC), ancient Greek philosopher *, a Prussian (later German) gunboat built in the 1860s *, a German armored gunboat built in the late 1870s and early 1880s

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