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chameleon Alternative forms
* chamaeleon
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Noun
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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.
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.
(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.
Adjective
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Describing something that changes color.
- The wall was covered with a chameleon paint.
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