Oracle (disambiguation)
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An Oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion.
Oracle may also refer to:
- Oracle Corporation, a business software company
- Oracle database, its popular database product
- The Oracle, Reading, a shopping mall in Reading, England
- The Oracle, the first novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Edwin O'Connor
- The Oracle, the student newspaper of Stratford High School in Houston, Texas
- The Oracle, University of South Florida, that school's campus newspaper
- San Francisco Oracle, an influential underground newspaper published from 1966 to 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco
- Internet Oracle, internet humor
- In computational complexity theory and computability theory, an agent able to decide instantly any problem of a certain type, see oracle machine
- Oracle, Arizona
- Random oracle, an abstraction used in cryptographic proofs
- Oracle (rocket), a model rocket equipped with a digital camera, which is made by Estes Industries
- John Kendrick (cloth merchant) (1573-1624), known as The Oracle
- The Oracle is the first book of The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, by Catherine Fisher.
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- The Oracle at Delphi, a legendary figure who gave prophecies
- The Oracle, a character in the Matrix trilogy
- The Oracle, a character in Scary Movie 3 that is a spoof of The Oracle from the Matrix trilogy
- Oracle (comics), a comic book superhero appearing in the publications of DC Comics (real name Barbara Gordon, previously the original Batgirl)
- Oracle (Spider Riders), a heroine of the Spider Riders anime.
- The fourth month of the year on the Zork calendar
ORACLE may refer to:
- ORACLE (computer), an early computer built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- ORACLE (teletext), a commercial British teletext service in operation between 1974 and 1992