ALL meanings of oracle
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O o - abbreviation Technical meaning of ORACLE Oracle Corporation 3
- noun oracle prophet 1
- noun oracle wise person 1
- noun oracle A priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity. 1
- noun oracle (especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry. 1
- noun oracle the agency or medium giving such responses. 1
- noun oracle a shrine or place at which such responses were given: the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. 1
- noun oracle a person who delivers authoritative, wise, or highly regarded and influential pronouncements. 1
- noun oracle a divine communication or revelation. 1
- noun oracle any person or thing serving as an agency of divine communication. 1
- noun oracle any utterance made or received as authoritative, extremely wise, or infallible. 1
- noun oracle oracles, the Scriptures. 1
- noun oracle the holy of holies of the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem. I Kings 6:16, 19–23. 1
- noun Definition of oracle in Technology (company) The world's leading supplier of information management software. The company, worth $2 billion, offers its products, along with related consulting, education and support services in more than 90 countries around the world. Oracle is best known for its database management systems vendor and relational DBMS products. Oracle develops and markets Oracle Media Server and the Oracle7 family of software products for database management; Co-operative Development Environment and Oracle Co-operative Applications Oracle software runs on personal digital assistants, set-top boxs, IBM PCs, workstations, minicomputers, mainframes and massively parallel computers. Oracle bought Sun Microsystems on 2009-04-20. See also Adaptable User Interface, Bookviewer, CASE*Method, Component Integration Laboratories, DDE Manager, Online Media, Oracle Card, Oracle*CASE, siod. Address: Redwood Shores, CA, USA. 1
- countable noun oracle In ancient Greece, an oracle was a priest or priestess who made statements about future events or about the truth. 0
- noun oracle a prophecy, often obscure or allegorical, revealed through the medium of a priest or priestess at the shrine of a god 0
- noun oracle a shrine at which an oracular god is consulted 0
- noun oracle an agency through which a prophecy is transmitted 0
- noun oracle any person or thing believed to indicate future action with infallible authority 0
- noun oracle a statement believed to be infallible and authoritative 0
- noun oracle a message from God 0
- noun oracle the holy of holies in the Israelite temple 0
- noun oracle among the ancient Greeks and Romans, 0
- noun oracle the place where, or medium by which, deities were consulted 0
- noun oracle the revelation or response of a medium or priest 0
- noun oracle any person or agency believed to be in communication with a deity 0
- noun oracle any person of great knowledge or wisdom 0
- noun oracle opinion or statements of any such oracle 0
- noun oracle the holy of holies of the ancient Jewish Temple: 1 Kings 6:16, 19-23 0