obfuscator
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- noun
- /ˈɑb.fəˌskeɪ.tər/
- Specialized
:
ofuscador
- As an obfuscator, he deliberately made his explanations convoluted to confuse the audience.
Examples
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Many obfuscators aim to protect intellectual property by concealing their programming techniques.
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The software developer used an obfuscator to make the code harder to read for unauthorized users.
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Usually, more lines mean longer to understand, except for self-obfuscators such as yourself.
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What about your linker, obfuscator, or packer?
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Oh, almost forgot, he's a master obfuscator; it's damn annoying to me that he NEVER gives a straight answer. The debates were a joke.
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Now, you know, climate obfuscators often cite volcanic activity as one of the main contributors to greenhouse gases on Earth.
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As protections such as packers, run-time obfuscators, virtual machine, and debugger detectors become common, newer methods must be developed to cope with them.
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Synonyms
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A person who on purpose hides facts or makes them hard to understand
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A person or thing that is hard to understand and confuses people
Antonyms
How Obscure
Surface Forms
Morphology
obfuscator = obfuscate (semi-transparent) = ob + fusc + ate + or
Formation of an agent noun by adding the productive suffix '-or' to the verb 'obfuscate' is a regular and transparent process for learners who know the verb.
Etymology
The word obfuscator comes from the Latin verb obfuscare, made of ob- and fusc-, with fusc- meaning 'dark' or 'to darken'. So an obfuscator is something or someone that 'darkens' information — it makes things unclear or hard to understand, often on purpose, like a tool that hides computer code.