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Optimus Prime (Robots in Disguise) Optimus Prime is a fictional character in Transformers: Robots in Disguise who leads the Autobots in a secret campaign. Hidden in plain sight on Earth as common, everyday vehicles, the Autobots are forced to emerge when Megatron and his Predacons arrive and wreak havoc in their attempts to attain the power of Earth's varied energy sources.
Opting out Opting out is a political expression that was formulated in Canada to describe the exercise of a province to assume a program (within its own jurisdiction) for which the federal government offers, in part or in integrity, a financing and an administration. Up until the 1960s, a province that would not participate in a shared-cost program would suffer full financial penalty for exercising this choice.
Optio An Optio (from the Latin verb optare, 'to choose', because an Optio was chosen by his Centurion) was a soldier in the Roman army who held a position similar to that of a non-commissioned officer in modern armies. The main function of an Optio was as an Optio centuriae, the second-in-command of a centuria (century), although there were many other positions an Optio could hold.
Option (car magazine) Option (オプション, Opushon in katakana and subtitled Exciting Car Magazine) is a automotive magazine founded by Daijiro Inada in 1981, to meet the demand for enthusiasts of modified Japanese cars in Japan.
Option (films) In the film industry, an option is a contractual agreement between a movie studio, a production company, or a producer (henceforth called the "producer") and a writer, in which the producer obtains the right to buy a screenplay from the writer, before a certain date. In the same way, producers can obtain options to write screenplays based on books, articles, video games, songs, or any other conceivable works of authorship.
Option 30 Option 30 was a New Wave band from the 1980s, in which Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails played the keyboard and supplied lead vocals. The band also featured Tim Smith (guitars/vocals), Jim Nordstrom (bass/saxophone) and Todd Nero (percussion).
Option contract An option contract is defined as "a promise which meets the requirements for the formation of a contract and limits the promisor's power to revoke an offer." Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 25 (1981).
Option Canada Option Canada is a Montreal-based lobby group established some eight weeks before the voting day of the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty. According to registration papers filed with both the Canadian and Quebec governments, the private group was incorporated by executives of the Canadian Unity Council on September 7, 1995.
Option in South Tyrol The Option in South Tyrol (; ) refers to the period between 1939 and 1943, when non-Italian speaking people living in South Tyrol were given the "option" of either emigrating to neighboring Nazi Germany or remaining in South Tyrol and being forcefully integrated in to the mainstream Italian culture, losing their language and cultural heritage.
Option Institute The Option Institute was founded in [1983] by Barry Neil Kaufman and his wife Samahria Lyte Kaufman. The institute offers programs for personal growth based on a philosophy developed by Kaufman and described in his book Happiness is a Choice.
Option offense The option offense is a system of running plays in American football. The basic concept of the option is to have a player, typically the quarterback, run with the ball while observing the actions of one or more specific defenders.
Option Québec Option Québec is a political manifesto written by René Lévesque, a cabinet minister in the government of Quebec, Canada, in 1968. Lévesque, a member of the Liberal Party of Quebec, published the manifesto in September 1968, one month before the party's annual congress.
Option ROM An Option ROM typically consists of firmware that is called by the system BIOS. For example, an adapter card that controls a boot device might contain firmware that is used to connect the device to the system once the Option ROM is loaded.
Option style In finance, the style or family of an option is a general term denoting the class into which the option falls, usually defined by the dates on which the option may be exercised. The vast majority of options are either European or American (style) options.
Optional Practical Training Optional Practical Training (OPT) is a period during which undergraduate and graduate students who have completed or have been pursuing their degrees for more than 9 months are permitted by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to work for at most one year on a student visa without needing to acquire a work H-1B visa) towards getting a practical training to complement their field of studies. Students are permitted total of 12 months towards practical training, on being certified by the advisor of the usefulness of the work towards goals of the degree, which can be distributed between Curricular Practical Training (CPT) and OPT.
Optional Preferential Voting Optional Preferential Voting is a system of vote-casting used in the state of Queensland in the Commonwealth of Australia. Most Australian elections are run under strict rules of preferential voting, where all candidates must be numbered in order of the preference of the voter, or the vote will not be counted.
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, supplementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, was adopted by the United Nations in 2000. In terms of the protocol, states must protect the rights and interests of child victims of trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography, child labour and especially the worst forms of child labour.
Options backdating Options backdating is the potentially illegal (depending on the country) practice of the grant of restricted employee stock options at an exercise price equal to the value on the date that the grant is apparently made. However, the date chosen for the grant date is cherry picked to select an earlier date, one when the price of the underlying stock was lower.
Options Clearing Corporation The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), founded in 1973, is (as of 2006) the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, as well as a clearing firm in commodity futures, commodity options, and security futures. By acting as guarantor, they ensure that the obligations of the contracts they clear are fulfilled.
Options spread Options spreads are the basic building blocks of many options trading strategies. A spread position is entered by buying and selling equal number of options of the same class on the same underlying security but with different strike prices and/or expiration dates.
Options strategies An option strategy is usually implemented by combining one or more option positions and zero or more underlying positions. The option positions used can be long and/or short positions in calls and/or puts at various strikes.
OptiPNG OptiPNG is an open source command line computer program that reduces the size of PNG files. The compression is lossless, meaning that the resulting image will have exactly the same appearance as the source image.
OptiVISOR An OptiVISOR is a Optical Magnification Precision device that is used by jewelers, engravers, architects, physicians and most other occupations that require magnification equipment manufactured by Donegan Optical Company.
Opto 22 Opto 22 is a manufacturing company specializing in hardware and software products for industrial automation, remote monitoring, and data acquisition. The company is based in Southern California and is well-known in the automation and control industry for its history of innovation in the development of solid state relays and Ethernet-based input/output systems and controllers.
Optoacoustic imaging Optoacoustic imaging is an imaging technology based on the photothermal effect, and can be used to obtain images of structures in turbid environments. The optoacoustic technique combines the accuracy of spectroscopy with the depth resolution of ultrasound.
Optoelectric nuclear battery An optolectric nuclear battery has been developed by researchers of the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow. A beta-emitter such as technetium-99 or strontium-90 is suspended in a gas or liquid containing luminescent gas molecules of the excimer type, constituting a "dust plasma.
Optoelectronics Optoelectronics is the study and application of electronic devices that interact with light, and thus is usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, light often includes invisible forms of radiation such as gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared.
Optochin Optochin (ethyl hydrocuprein hydrochloride) is the component of P disk. It is used for the presumptive identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is optochin sensitive, from Streptococcus viridans which is resistant.
Optometric Extension Program The Optometric Extension Program (OEP) is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the discipline of optometry through the gathering and dissemination of information on vision. The mission of OEP is to advance human progress through research and education on vision, the visual process, and clinical care.
Optometry in Singapore Optometry is a health care profession that provides comprehensive eye and vision care, which includes the diagnosis and management of eye diseases. The practice of optometry in Singapore is largely unregulated.
Optrics Engineering Optrics Engineering is a professionally-licensed engineering firm and has been actively in business since 1995, primarily specializing in network design and network-specific software and hardware solutions. Clients include NASA, Microsoft, US Army, US Airforce, US Navy, DND, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Mercedes-Benz.
Optus SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (). The company primarily trades under the Optus brand, while maintaining several wholly owned subsidiary brands, such as Virgin Mobile Australia in the mobile telephony market and Uecomm in the network services market.
Optymistychna Cave Optimisticeskaja (Ukrainian: печера Оптимістична; meaning "optimistic") is a gypsum cave in the Ternopil district of Ukraine. As of 2005, it has 230 km of mapped passageways, which makes it the second longest cave in the world, after the Mammoth Cave System (by some other sources it is referred as having about 133 miles (214 kilometers) of surveyed passageways, that makes it the third-longest cave in the world, after Mammoth Cave and Jewel Cave).
Opua Branch The Opua Branch or Otiria-Opua Industrial Line, now the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway, is a former section of the North Auckland Line in the Northland Region of New Zealand, between Kawakawa and the Bay of Islands township of Opua. The first section was constructed as a bush tramway in 1868 and converted to a railway in the next decade.
Opuntia engelmannii Opuntia engelmannii is a prickly pear common across the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It goes by a variety of common names, including "cow's tongue cactus", "cow tongue prickly pear", "desert prickly pear", "discus prickly pear", "Engelmann's prickly pear", and "Texas prickly pear" in the US, and "nopal", "abrojo", "joconostle", and "vela de coyote" in Mexico.
Opuntia imbricata The cane cholla (or walking stick cholla, tree cholla, chainlink cactus, etc.) (Opuntia imbricata) is a cactus found in arid parts of North America, including some cooler regions in comparison to many other cacti.
Opuntia microdasys Opuntia microdasys (Bunny Ears Cactus, Bunny Cactus or Polka-dot Cactus) is a species of cactus native to central and northern Mexico. It forms a dense shrub 40-60 cm tall, occasionally more, composed of pad-like stems 6-15 cm long and 4-12 cm broad.
Opus 40 Opus 40 is a large Earth art installation in Saugerties, New York, created by sculptor and quarryman Harvey Fite (1903--1976). It is comprised of a sprawling series of dry-stone ramps, pedestals and platforms covering 6.
Opus Anglicanum Opus Anglicanum are fine needlework often done for the Church, primarily by nuns and then by laywomen in workshops. These exquisite and expensive embroidery pieces were often copes but could be other types of church furnishings and vestments.
Opus Clavicembalisticum Opus Clavicembalisticum is a solo piano piece composed by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, completed on June 26, 1930. The piece is notable for its length and difficulty, and was the longest piano piece written at the time of its completion.
Opus Dei Opus Dei, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, is an international organization which is part of the Roman Catholic Church. "Opus Dei" is Latin for "The Work of God", and the organization is sometimes known simply as "the Work".
Opus Dei and politics Opus Dei and politics is a discussion on Opus Dei's view on politics, its role in politics and its members involvement in politics. There were accusations that the Catholic personal prelature of Opus Dei has had links with far-right governments world-wide, including Franco's and Hitler's regimes.
Opus emplectum Opus emplectum - advanced construction art relying on structuring both sides of the wall with hewn stone blocks and fulfilling area between them with broken stones with mortar. The good example of this technique are ruins of the romanesque tower in Strzelno.
Opus International Malaysia Opus International Malaysia is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Opus International Group plc, and operates primarily in Malaysia. It provides project management engineering services in the civil engineering field for asset development and maintenance of highways and infrastructure.
Opus Majus The Opus Majus (Latin for "Greater Work") is the most important work of Roger Bacon. It was written in Medieval Latin, at the request of Pope Clement IV, to explain the work that Bacon had undertaken.
Opus number Opus, from the Latin word opus meaning "work", is usually used in the sense of "a work of art". In this sense the plural of opus, "opera", is used to refer to the genre of music drama.
Opus operatum Opus operatum (Latin: the work done) is a term used in the Roman Catholic scholasticism to denote the intrinsic objective efficacy of the sacraments. The term was established by the Council of Trent as opus operatum, id est passive operatum J.
Opus One Winery Opus One Winery is a winery located in Napa Valley. The winery is a joint venture between Baroness Philippine de Rothschild of Château Mouton Rothschild and Robert Mondavi located across California State Route 29 from the Robert Mondavi Winery in Oakville, California.
Opus Posthumous Waltz in E major (Chopin) Chopin's Waltz in E Major Opus Posthumous is one of the lesser known waltzes, disovered in his folder containing musical works that he did not want to be published. The pattern of the waltz follows this form: A1, A2, B, C, B, D, A2, B, C, B
Opus reticulatum Opus reticulatum is a form of brickwork that uses diamond-shaped bricks of tufa that are placed around a core of opus caementicium. The diamond-shaped tufa blocks are placed with the pointed ends into the cement core at roughly π/4, so the square bases form a diagonal pattern, and the pattern of mortar lines resembles a net.
Opus the Penguin [early Opus appearance in the strip Bloom County]Opus the Penguin is a character in the comic strips and children's books of Berke Breathed, most notably the popular 1980s strip Bloom County. Breathed has described him as an "existentialist penguin" and the favorite of his many characters.
Opuzen Opuzen is a small town in Dubrovnik-Neretva County in Croatia. It has a population of 3,242 (census 2001), and together with neighbouring municipality of Slivno, which lies alongside the left bank of river Mala Neretva, has 5,320 residents.
Opuzz Music Library Opuzz royalty free music library , founded in 1999, is a forefront provider of buyout music to broadcasters, filmmakers, web developers, videographer, game developers and corporate clients needing music without licensing complexities. Opuzz also actively serves educational institutes, government agencies, churches, non-profit organizations and podcasters needing legally acquired music that is royalty free.
OP-20-G OP-20-G or "Office of Chief Of Naval Operations (OPNAV), 20th Division of the Office of Naval Communications, G Section / Communications Security", was the US Navy's cryptanalysis group. Its mission was to intercept, decrypt, and analyze naval communications from Japanese, German, and Italian navies.
OP8 OP8 are the musical collaboration of the multi-instrumentalist Lisa Germano; Howe Gelb, the man behind the rock band Giant Sand; Joey Burns and John Convertino, who form the band Calexico together and have both been members of Giant Sand.
OPAC An online public access catalog or OPAC is a computerized online catalog of the materials held in a library, or library system. The library staff and the public can usually access it at computers within the library, or from home via the Internet.
OPAL OPAL (Open Pool Australian Lightwater reactor) is a 20 megawatt pool-type nuclear research reactor currently in the late stage of being commissioned (as of Dec 2006) at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Research Establishment at Lucas Heights in south Sydney, Australia.
OPAL pipeline The OPAL (Ostsee Pipeline Anschluss-Leitung) is a planned 480 km long pipeline, which will connect the planned Nord Stream pipeline with the JAGAL (distributes gas from the Yamal-Europe pipeline), and the STEGAL (distributes gas from the Central-European Russian gas transit system (Transgas) via Czech and Slovak republics) pipelines. It will run from Greifswald to Olbernhau near German-Czech border.
OPANAL OPANAL (which stands for Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe) is an international organization which promotes nuclear disarmament. In English, its title is The Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean.
OPC Foundation The OPC Foundation is an industry consortium that creates and maintains standards for open connectivity of industrial automation devices and systems. The OPC standards specify the communication of industrial process data, alarms and events, historical data and batch process data between sensors, instruments, controllers, software systems and notification devices.
OPC Historical Data Access This group of standards, created by the OPC Foundation, provides COM specifications for communicating data from devices and applications that provide historical data, such as databases. The specifications provides for access to raw, interpolated and aggregate data.
OPeNDAP OPeNDAP, an acronym for "Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol", is a data transport architecture and protocol widely used by earth scientists. The protocol is based on HTTP and the current specification is OPeNDAP 2.
OPEC The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an international organization made up of Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. Since 1965 its international headquarters have been in Vienna, Austria.
OPEX (Corporation) OPEX Corporation is a manufacturer of machinery that helps in the automatic processing of mail, especially cheques. This equipment can, for example, sort mail automatically based on whether it has a single check and "payment coupon", multiple checks and coupons, or other features, automatically.
OPEX (Stock Exchange) OPEX is an alternative trading system (ATS) that is managed by PEX (Private Exchange). The market was launched in 2003 to provide a trading environment to the small and mid cap securities of Portuguese companies.
OPGA The Organic Pin Grid Array (OPGA) is a type of connection for integrated circuits, and especially CPUs, where the silicon die is attached to a plate out of an organic plastic which is pierced by an array of pins which make the requisite connections to the socket.
OPIE Authentication System One Time Passwords in Everything (OPIE) is an authentication kit that enables the use of S/KEY one-time passwords with various Unix services and utilities that require password authentication. OPIE is mature and not actively maintained at present.
OPL Development Studio OPL Development Studio is an optimization modeling system for mathematical programming and constraint programming. Optimization models are written in OPL, the Optimization Programming Language, which was originally developed by Pascal van Hentenryck.
OPML OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines. Originally developed by Radio UserLand as a native file format for an outliner application, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of RSS feeds between RSS aggregators.
OPOJAZ OPOJAZ (OПOЯЗ) (, Obščestvo izučenija POètičeskogo JAZyka, "Society for the Study of Poetic Language") was a prominent group of linguists and literary critics in St. Petersburg founded in 1916 and dissolved by the early 1930s.
OPSM OPSM is the largest retailer of eye glasses in Australia and New Zealand, with locations in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia as well. The company was founded in 1932, and Luxottica acquired a controlling interest in 2003.
OPV (naval) An offshore patrol vessel (OPV), sometimes referred to as a coastal patrol craft, is a warship typically smaller in size than a Corvette and can include fast attack craft, torpedo boats and missile boats, although some are as large as a Frigate. They are usually the smallest ship in a Navy's fleet that are large and seaworthy enough to patrol off-shore, in the open ocean.
OPV AIDS hypothesis According to the oral polio vaccine (OPV) AIDS hypothesis, the AIDS pandemic originated from live polio vaccines prepared in chimpanzee tissue cultures (at least some of which were almost certainly contaminated with chimpanzee SIV) which were administered to up to one million Africans between 1957 and 1960. The specific populations, who may not have been properly informed of the risks before volunteering for the vaccination, were the first in the world to experience HIV-1 infections and AIDS some five to twenty years later.
Oqil Oqilov Okil Ghaybulloyevich Okilov or Oqil Oqilov (: Оқил Оқилов/عاقل عاقلوف) (born 2 February 1944) has served as the Prime Minister of Tajikistan since 20 December 1999. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan.
Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple will be the second of two temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be built in South Jordan, Utah. It will also be the fourth in the Salt Lake Valley and the 13th in the state of Utah.
Oquirrh Mountains The Oquirrh Mountains are a mountain range that run north-south for approximately 30 miles (50 km) to form the west side of Utah's Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley. The range stops at the south shore of the Great Salt Lake.
Oquirrh, Utah Oquirrh was a census-designated place (CDP) in Salt Lake County, Utah, located on the slopes of the Oquirrh Mountains that gave it its name. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 10,390, a modest increase over the 1990 figure of 7,593.
Or (heraldry) In heraldry, or (from the French word for gold) is the tincture of gold, and belongs to the class of light tinctures, called "metals". In engravings and line drawings, it may be represented using a pattern of dots.
Or Aqiva Or Aqiva (; also Aqiva}}; unofficially also spelled Or Akiva) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 15,800.
Or Commission The Or Commission (Hebrew: ועדת אור; the full name is ועדת החקירה הממלכתית לבירור ההתנגשויות בין כוחות הביטחון לבין אזרחים ישראלים באוקטובר 2000) was an Israeli panel of inquiry appointed to investigate the issue of Israeli police treatment of Arabs. The commission's report was released on September 2, 2003.
Or Give Me Death Or Give Me Death (ISBN 0-15-216687-4) is a work of historical fiction by Ann Rinaldi about the possibility that the famous words of Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty or Give me death" may in fact have been spoken first by his dying, mentally ill wife, whom he kept locked up in a cellar to keep her from hurting anyone.
Or HaGanuz Or HaGanuz () is a Jewish village in the eastern upper Galilee, about six kilometres northwest of the town of Safed. The Orthodox settlement was founded in 1989 within the Merom HaGalil Regional Council by a group of newly-baal teshuva Jews.
Ora de Ĺźtiri Ora de Ĺźtiri ("The News Hour") is the main news show broadcast daily on TVR 2 starting with 9 pm. It is presented by Adrian Muraru from Monday to Friday, and by Monica Ghiurco on Saturday and Sunday.
Orace Orace is the mule companion of Flip the Frog in such early 1930s cartoons as The Village Specialist, Spooks, and The Milkman. Orace is a lazy, foul-mouthed character who is meant to serve Flip as a draft animal, but doesn't always do a very good job of it.
Oracion Seis (Groove Adventure Rave) Oracion Seis ("Seis" being Spanish for "Six") is a group in the anime and manga series Groove Adventure Rave. They are the six most powerful warriors and leaders in the terrorist organization known as Demon Card, and they take their orders from the individual known as King, Demon Card's most powerful warrior and its supreme ruler.
Oracle An oracle is a person or persons considered to be the source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. It can also be a prediction of the future, from deities, that is spoken through another object or life-form.
Oracle (band) Oracle was notable as a collaborative musical venture between Minimal Compact's Malka Spigel & Samy Birnbach and Wire's Colin Newman. The project spanned the years 1988-1993 and mostly took place in Brussels.
Oracle (rocket) Oracle is the name of a model rocket with built-in digital camera, manufactured by Estes Industries, for aerial photography. In contrast to the camera rocket Astrocam, the Oracle allows the making of a complete film of a rocket flight.
Oracle Application Development Framework Oracle Application Development Framework, usually called Oracle ADF, is a commercial framework for quickly creating enterprise applications. Based on the MVC architecture it can support any combination of the following:
Oracle Application Express Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX, previously named Oracle HTML DB) is a free software development environment based on the Oracle database It was previously known as "Project Marvel" and "Web DB". It allows a very fast development cycle] to be achieved to create [[web applications|web based applications.
Oracle Arena The Oracle Arena also known by its former name of The Arena in Oakland is an indoor arena in Oakland, California, United States. It was originally constructed as the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena in 1966.
Oracle bone Oracle bones (甲骨片 pinyin: jiǎgǔpiàn) are pieces of bone or turtle shell used in royal divination in the mid Shang to early Zhou dynasties in ancient China, and often bearing written inscriptions in what is called oracle bone script.
Oracle bone script Oracle bone script () refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters found on oracle bones, which are animal bones or turtle shells used in divination in ancient China. The vast majority of the such bones are ox scapulae and tortoise plastrons which record the pyromantic divinations of the royal house of the late Shang dynasty, primarily at the capital of Yin (modern Anyang, Henan Province), and date from around 1200-1050 B.
Oracle BPEL Process Manager Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a BPEL engine that is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. It enables enterprises to orchestrate disparate applications and Web services into business processes.
Oracle Call Interface The Oracle Call Interface (OCI) is a set of low-level APIs (Application programming interface calls) used to interact with Oracle databases. OCI programs are normally written in C or C++, although they can be written in almost any programming language.
Oracle Certification Program The Oracle Certification Program is a professional certification program offered by the Oracle Corporation. There are three levels of Oracle Certification in several disciplines: Oracle Certified Associate (OCA), Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), and Oracle Certified Master (OCM).
Oracle ConText Oracle Corporation introduced Oracle ConText first as a software option, then as an Oracle data cartridge (a server-based software module) for text retrieval when it released version 8 of the Oracle database in 1997. It used the default schema CTXSYS and the default tablespace DRSYS.
Oracle database An Oracle database consists of a collection of data managed by an Oracle database management system. Popular generic usage also uses the term to refer to the Oracle DBMS management software, but not necessarily to a specific database under its control.
Oracle Data Guard The software which Oracle Corporation markets as Oracle Data Guard forms an extension to the Oracle database management system. It aids in establishing and maintaining secondary "standby databases" as alternatives to production "primary databases".
Oracle Data Mining Oracle Data Mining (ODM) is a software product distributed as an option to Oracle Corporation's Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Enterprise Edition (EE). This product supports a collection of data mining and data analysis algorithms for classification, prediction, regression, clustering, associations, feature selection, anomaly detection, feature extraction, and specialized analytics.

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