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omlet

omlet is the obsolete spelling of omelette.

omlet is the misspelling of omelette.

Meaning of omelette

Noun

omelette (countable and uncountable, 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 other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
    • He crossed to the window, which looked on to a herb garden, and seated himself on the chintz-covered window-seat and delicately watched the two, who were engaged in eating omelette and salad at a round table near the fire-place.1912, Marjorie Bowen [pseudonym; Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long], “The Heretic”, in The Quest of Glory, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], part I (The Quest Joyful), pages 69–70
  2. 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.
    • 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

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Forms of omlet

pluralomlets

Questions about omlet

What is omlet the obsolete spelling of?
Omlet is the obsolete spelling of omelette.

Words near omlet in the dictionary

  1. omkars
  2. oml
  3. omlah
  4. omlahs
  5. Omlanda
  6. omlet
  7. omlets
  8. omlette
  9. Omlor
  10. Omlors
  11. OMM

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