Oracle (disambiguation)

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

ORACLE or Oracle may also refer to:

In fiction

• The Pythia, or the Oracle at Delphi, a legendary figure who gave prophecies
• Oracle (The Matrix), a character in the Matrix trilogy
• Barbara Gordon ("Oracle"), a comic book superhero appearing in the publications of DC Comics (previously the original Batgirl)
• Oracle, a heroine of the Spider Riders anime
• Oracle, the fourth month of the year on the Zork calendar
• Oracle, Inc., a fictional company briefly established by Marvel Comics character Namor the Submariner
• The Oracle, also known as 343 Guilty Spark, a fictional character featured in the Halo video game series
• The Oracle, primary interface to the Vector Sigma computer in the Beast Machines television show.

In literature

• The Oracle, the first novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Edwin O'Connor
• The Oracle, the student newspaper of Stratford High School (Houston), in Texas
• The Oracle (University of South Florida), campus newspaper
• San Francisco Oracle, an influential underground newspaper published from 1966 to 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco
• The Oracle (book), the first book of The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, by Catherine Fisher
• Barbara Gordon, the DC comics character; formerly known as Batgirl.

In computing

• Oracle Corporation
• Oracle Database, a popular database product by Oracle Corporation
• ORACLE (computer), an early computer built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Internet Oracle, internet humor
• Oracle machine, in computational complexity theory and computability theory, an agent able to decide instantly any problem of a certain type
• Random oracle, an abstraction used in cryptographic proofs

In broadcasting

• ORACLE (teletext), a commercial British teletext service in operation between 1974 and 1992

In 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

Places

• The Oracle, Reading, a shopping mall in Reading, England
• Oracle, Arizona, United States

Persons

• John Kendrick (cloth merchant) (1573-1624), a cloth merchant known as The Oracle

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, which is made by Estes Industries