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obfuscator

noun

Etymology

From obfuscate + -or.

  1. derived from ob-
  2. borrowed from offuscātus
  3. derived from offusquer
  4. borrowed from obfusquer
  5. formed as obfuscator — “obfuscate + -or”

Definitions

  1. Agent noun of obfuscate

    Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.

  2. A software program that modifies another program to make it harder to decompile or…

    A software program that modifies another program to make it harder to decompile or reverse-engineer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for obfuscator. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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