Chimera

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the
        imagination; as, the chimera of an author. --Burke.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Chimera
       n 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: {Chimaera}]
       2: a grotesque product of the imagination [syn: {chimaera}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "chimera":
     airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, brainchild, bubble,
     daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism,
     dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, eidolon, false belief,
     fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, golden dream,
     hallucination, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery,
     imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, maggot,
     make-believe, misbelief, misconception, mosaic, myth, phantasm,
     phantom, pipe, pipe dream, pomato, potomato, quixotic ideal,
     rainbow, romance, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion,
     sick fancy, thick-coming fancies, topato, trick, trip, unreal hope,
     utopia, vapor, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams,
     wrong impression
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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 server}s, {Gopher}, {FTP}, {HTTP} and local
          file accesses.  Chimera can be extended using external
          programs.  New {protocol}s 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)}.
       
          {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
          {X11}R[3-6], {imake} and a {C} compiler.
       
          (1994-11-08)