omelette

See also: Omelette

English

An omelette.

Alternative forms

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/
  • (file)
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɔm.lət/
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɑm.lət/, /ˈɑm.lɪt/, /ˈɑ.mə.lət/
  • (file)

Noun

omelette (plural omelettes)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔm.lɛt/

Noun

omelette f (plural omelettes)

  1. omelette

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Interlingua

Noun

omelette (plural omelettes)

  1. omelette

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French omelette.

Noun

omelette f (invariable)

  1. omelette

Portuguese

Noun

omelette f (plural omelettes)

  1. Alternative form of omelete
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