Chimera - Definition and Overview

Chimera can mean the following:

In mythology

• In Greek Mythology, the Chimera is a monstrous creature with three heads/ fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

In music

• In heavy metal music, Chimaira is a heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio.
• In new age or electronica music, Chimera is an album by Delerium.
• In black metal music, Chimera is an album by Mayhem.

In science

• In biology, a chimera is a single animal organism with genetically distinct cells from two different zygotes.
• In botany, a chimera is a single plant organism with genetically distinct cells.
• In genetics, a chimera is a hybrid protein made by splicing two genes.
• In paleontology, a chimera is a fossil with elements from more than one creature, like the Ultrasauros and perhaps the Protoavis.
• In zoology, a chimaera is a group of cartilaginous fishes related to sharks.
• In Computational Fluid Dynamics, a Chimera grid method is a technique to use overlapping non-aligned grids to simplify grid generation.

In Art & Design

• In Art & Design, Chimera is a very pale purple or lavender colour. It is mainly used when referring to painting. Chimera is made up of a mixture of 2 or more colours. Chimera is known as a base colour. Another base colour is Magnolia which is also a common colour used to paint the walls of houses e.t.c when first built.

As a noun, Chimera means a grotesque product of the imagination.

In business

• In the automobile industry, Chimera is a model of sports car made by TVR.
• On the internet, Chimera is the older name of a Mozilla-based web browser for Mac OS X. It is now called Camino.

In fiction

• In literature, Chimera was a 1972 novel by John Barth.
• In the Star Wars universe, Chimaera was an Imperial Star Destroyer.