omelette
See also: Omelette
English
Alternative forms
- omelet (chiefly US)
Etymology
From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒm.lɪt/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɔm.lət/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɑm.lət/, /ˈɑm.lɪt/, /ˈɑ.mə.lət/
Audio (CA) (file)
Noun
omelette (plural omelettes)
- A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs.
- (computing) A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.
- 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium
- This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.
- 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
dish made with beaten eggs
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔm.lɛt/
Further reading
- “omelette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
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