omelette

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• 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.

Origin

• From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle, probably derived from lemelle, from Latin lamella.