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 Meaning of MARBLES
| Pronunciation: |  | m'ârbulz 
 
 |  | Matching Terms: |  | Marble, marble bones disease, marble cake, marbled, marbled salamander, Marble-edged, marbleisation, marbleise, marbleised, marbleising, marbleization, Marbleize, marbleized, marbleizing, Marbler, marblewood 
 
 |  |  Computing Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | (From the mainstream "lost his marbles") The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions.  After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch.  "This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile hello, world." [Jargon File] |  |  |  |  | Sponsored Links: |  |  |  |  |    |  |