Oracle (disambiguation)

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An Oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. Most notably:

• The Oracle at Delphi, known as the Pythia

Oracle or ORACLE may also refer to:

Contents 1 Anime and comics 2 Computing 3 Gaming 4 Literature 4.1 Novels and short stories 4.2 Periodicals 5 Movies, television and broadcasting 6 Music 7 Persons 8 Places 9 Other uses

[edit] Anime and comics

• Oracle, DC Comics character Barbara Gordon after her retirement as the the original Batgirl
• Oracle, Inc., a fictional company established by Marvel Comics character Namor the Submariner
• Oracle, the shell program, sometimes interface of Vector Sigma from the Transformers series.
• Oracle, a heroine of the Spider Riders anime

[edit] Computing

• Oracle Corporation
• Oracle Database, a popular database product by Oracle Corporation
• Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and Logical Engine, or ORACLE (computer), an early computer built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Internet Oracle, internet humor
• Oracle machine, in computational complexity theory and computability theory, a theoretical computing machine equipped with a device (the oracle) that is able to instantly solve any problem of a certain type
• Random oracle, an abstraction used in cryptographic proofs

[edit] Gaming

• Oracle, the fourth month of the year on the Zork calendar
• The Oracle, also known as 343 Guilty Spark, a character featured in the Halo video game series
• The Oracle is a character who is known to be the creator of the world in the Jak & Daxter series. Either providing Dark eco powers or power cells

[edit] Literature

[edit] Novels and short stories

• The Oracle, a 1951 novel, the first by Edwin O'Connor
• The Oracle (book), a 2003 novel, first book of The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, by Catherine Fisher
• "Oracle", a short story by Greg Egan

[edit] Periodicals

• The Oracle, student newspaper of Stratford High School (Houston), in Texas
• The Oracle (University of South Florida), campus newspaper
• San Francisco Oracle, an underground newspaper published from 1966 to 1968 in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

[edit] Movies, television and broadcasting

• ORACLE (teletext), a commercial British teletext service in operation between 1974 and 1992
• Oracle (The Matrix), a character in The Matrix trilogy
• The Oracle, primary interface to the Vector Sigma computer in the Beast Machines television show

[edit] Music

• Oracle (album), the second album by Kittie, a Canadian alternative metal band
• Oracle (Sunn O))) album), an EP by Sunn O))), a drone doom band

[edit] Persons

• The Oracle, honorary nickname of John Kendrick (cloth merchant) (1573-1624)

[edit] Places

• The Oracle, Reading, a shopping mall in Reading, England named for John Kendrick
• Oracle, Arizona, United States

[edit] Other uses

• BMW Oracle Racing, an American sailing syndicate formed to compete in the America's Cup
• Oracle (rocket), a model rocket equipped with a digital camera, made by Estes Industries