V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
OLE
       Object Linking and Embedding
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Object Linking and Embedding
OLE
    (OLE) A distributed object system and
   protocol from Microsoft, also used on the Acorn
   Archimedes.  OLE allows an editor to "farm out" part of a
   document to another editor and then reimport it.  For example,
   a desk-top publishing system might send some text to a word
   processor or a picture to a bitmap editor using OLE.
   (1998-12-17)