ALL meanings of oboe
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O o - abbreviation Technical meaning of OBOE Object-code Buffer Overrun Evaluator 3
- noun oboe A woodwind instrument with a slender, tubular body, played with a double-reed mouthpiece. 1
- noun oboe music: wind instrument 1
- noun oboe a navigation system utilizing two radar ground stations that measure the distance to an aircraft and then radio the information to the aircraft. 1
- noun Technical meaning of oboe (security, programming, tool) (OBOE) A tool by R. Banfi, D. Bruschi, and E. Rosti for the automatic detection of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in object code. OBOE can be applied to operating system components as well as ordinary application programs. It was designed for the system administrator to identify vulnerable programs before they are exploited. Being automatic, OBOE can be run as a background process for the analysis of all potentially insecure programs installed on a Unix system. It runs on HP-UX, Linux, and Sun Solaris. 1
- variable noun oboe An oboe is a musical instrument shaped like a tube which you play by blowing through a double reed in the top end. 0
- noun oboe a woodwind instrument of the family that includes the bassoon and cor anglais, consisting of a conical tube fitted with a mouthpiece having a double reed. It has a penetrating nasal tone. Range: about two octaves plus a sixth upwards from B flat below middle C 0
- noun oboe a person who plays this instrument in an orchestra 0
- noun oboe a double-reed woodwind instrument having a range of nearly three octaves and a high, penetrating, melancholy tone 0
- noun oboe an organ stop producing an oboelike sound 0