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Chimera : (noun)
1: (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's
head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of
Typhon [syn: Chimera, Chimaera]
2: a grotesque product of the imagination [syn: chimaera]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Chimera : \Chime"ra\, n.; pl. Chimeras. [L. chimaera a chimera
(in sense 1), Gr. ? a she-goat, a chimera, fr. ? he-goat; cf.
Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.]
1. (Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as
having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the
tail of a dragon. ``Dire chimeras and enchanted isles.''
--Milton.
2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the
imagination; as, the chimera of an author. --Burke.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Chimera :
A modular, X Window System-based World-Wide Web browser
for Unix. Chimera uses the Athena widget set so Motif
is not needed. Chimera supports forms, inline images, TERM,
SOCKS, proxy servers, Gopher, FTP, HTTP and local
file accesses. Chimera can be extended using external
programs. New protocols can easily be added and alternate
image formats can be used for inline images
(e.g. PostScript).
Version 1.60 is available for
ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera)">(ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera).
http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/)">Home (http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/).
Chimera runs on Sun SPARC SunOS 4.1.x, IBM RS/6000
AIX 3.2.5, Linux 1.1.x. It should run on anything with
X11R[3-6], imake and a C compiler.
(1994-11-08)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Chimera : Chimera: In medicine, a person composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. Human chimeras were first discovered with the advent of blood typing when it was found that some people had
more than one blood type. Most of them proved to be "blood chimeras" -- non-identical twins who shared a blood supply in the marrow of the other. About 8% of non-identical twin pairs are chimeras.
Many more people are microchimeras and carry smaller numbers of foreign blood cells that may have passed from mother across the placenta, or persist from a blood IVF ) is also contributing to the
number of human chimeras. To improve success rates, two or more embryos are placed in the uterus so women who have IVF have more twin pregnancies than usual. More twins mean more chimeras.
In Greek mythology, the Chimera was an awesome fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. The Chimera was killed by the hero Bellerophon mounted,
in most versions of the tale, on Pegasus, the winged horse.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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