Oracle (disambiguation)
An oracle was usually a priest or a priestess through whom the gods were supposed to speak or prophesize. In particular:
- Pythia – served as an oracle in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
- Oracle bone – a bone used for divination in ancient China.
- Nechung Oracle – the state oracle of Tibet.
The term oracle is used figuratively to describe various terms in science and engineering.
Computing
- An oracle is a black box for solving a certain computationally-hard problem with a single operation. See Category:Computation oracles.
- For an oracle in mathematical computability theory, see Computable function#Relative computability.
- Oracle machine, an algorithm that uses an oracle for a specific problem.
- Blockchain oracle, a service that provides smart contracts with information from the outside world
- Oracle AI, a hypothetical artificial general intelligence design limited to answering questions
Proper names
- Oracle Corporation, a software and enterprise hardware company.
- Oracle Database, a database management system
- ORACLE (computer), an early computer
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
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 Hamline University
- The Oracle, a student newspaper of Stratford High School
- "Oracle", a short story by Greg Egan
Entertainment
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
- Oracle (upcoming film), an American horror thriller 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
Music albums
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
- BMW Oracle Racing, an American sailing syndicate
- Internet Oracle, a collaborative humor website
- Oracle, a technical symposium organized at Government College of Technology, Coimbatore
- Oracle bone script, the earliest Chinese and East Asian writing, script and word.
See also
- Auricle (disambiguation)
- Divination
- Divine revelation in Christianity
- Fortune-telling
- Omen
- Urim and Thummim in Judaism
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