Oracle (disambiguation)
Appearance
An oracle was usually a priest or a priestess through whom the gods were supposed to speak or prophesize.
Oracle may also refer to:
Word
- Oracle bone
- Oracle bone script, the earliest Chinese and East Asian writing, script and word.
History
- Pythia, commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi, the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi who also served as the oracle.
Computing
- Oracle machine, a computational model used to study decision problems
- Oracle Corporation, a software and enterprise hardware company
- Oracle Database, a database management system
- ORACLE (computer), an early computer
- Test oracle, a mechanism used in computing, software engineering and software testing, to determine whether a test case has passed or failed
- Random oracle, a black box that responds to every unique query with a random response
- Padding oracle, a black box which responds to queries about whether a message is correctly padded or not
- Oracle AI, a hypothetical artificial general intelligence design limited to answering questions
Mathematics
Publications
- The Oracle (novel), a 2003 book by Catherine Fisher
- The Oracle (University of South Florida), a student newspaper
- The Oracle (magazine), a defunct role-playing games magazine
- San Francisco Oracle, a 1960s underground newspaper
- The Oracle, a 1951 novel by Edwin O'Connor
- Oracle, a 2010 novel by Jackie French
- ORA:CLE, a 1984 novel by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
- The Oracle, a student newspaper of Stratford High School
- "Oracle", a short story by Greg Egan
Comics
- Oracle (Marvel Comics), a Marvel character and member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard
- Oracle, an alias used by DC Comics character Barbara Gordon
- Gus Yale, a successor of Oracle
- Oracle, the original alias of the DC Comics character who would be reimagined as Aurakles
- Oracle Inc., a company established by the Marvel character Namor
- The Oracle, a W.I.T.C.H. character
Film and television
- ORACLE (teletext), a British teletext service that was available on ITV and Channel 4
- The Oracle (film), a 1953 film
- The Oracle (The Matrix)
- The Oracle (TV series), a 1979 Australian drama series
- The Oracle in Aladdin and the King of Thieves
- The Oracle, a Casper Meets Wendy character
Games
- The Oracle of Delphi, a 2016 strategy board game designed by Stefan Feld.
Other fictional characters
- Oracle, a Spider Riders character
Places
- Oracle (workhouse), a workhouse erected with funds bequeathed by John Kendrick
- Oracle, Arizona
- The Oracle, Queensland, a development in Australia
- The Oracle, Reading, a shopping mall in England
- Oracle Arena, a sports venue
Music
Albums
- Oracle (Kittie album)
- Oracle (Sunn O))) album)
- Oracle (Michael Hedges album)
- Oracle (Gary Peacock and Ralph Towner album)
- Oracles (album), an album by Fleshgod Apocalypse
- The Oracle (Hank Jones album)
- The Oracle (Godsmack album)
- The Oracle (Dark Sermon album)
- The Oracle (Cindy Blackman album)
Songs
- "The Oracle", a composition by Tony Banks
- "Oracle", a song by Scale the Summit from the album The Migration
Other uses
- Oracle (rocket), model rocket for aerial photography
- Nechung Oracle, the state oracle of Tibet
- BMW Oracle Racing, an American sailing syndicate
- Internet Oracle, a collaborative humor website
- Oracle, a technical symposium organized at Government College of Technology, Coimbatore
See also
- Auricle (disambiguation)
- Divination
- Divine revelation in Christianity
- Fortune-telling
- Omen
- Urim and Thummim in Judaism