Chamaeleonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin chamaeleon (“chamaeleon”), from Ancient Greek χαμαιλέων (khamailéōn). Doublet of chameleon. Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597.

固有名詞

Chamaeleon

1. (astronomy) A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.
   • 1994, Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Volumes 28-30, Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, page 50,

     The X-ray luminosity function has been determined so far only for the far only for the central parts of the Chamaeleon SFR by Fiegelson et al. (1993).

   • 2001, A. Mizuno, T. Hayakawa, T. Onishi, Y. Fukui, Dense Core Survey toward the Chamaeleon Dark Cloud Complex with the NANTEN Radio Telescope, Alwyn Wootten (editor), Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Proceedings of a Conference, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, page 146.
   • 2005, Memorie Della Società Astronomica Italiana, Volume 76, Issues 1-2, Società Astronomica Italiana, page 263,

     We note, however, that the surveyed area in Chamaeleon II was relatively small in comparison with the other two regions, covering only part of a cloud core to the north-west.

使用する際の注意点

• The Chamaeleon complex is a large star-forming region of dark nebulae (or dark clouds) which covers most of the constellation Chamaeleon and overlaps several neighbouring constellations. Its main components are the dark clouds Chamaeleon I, Chamaeleon II and Chamaeleon III.

派生語

• Chamaeleon complex
• Chamaeleon I
• Chamaeleon II
• Chamaeleon III

関連する語

• Chamaeleontis (translingual)

Further reading

• Chamaeleon complex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia