meaning of pebble
1. A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.
3. To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
4. Pebble A polymorphic language. ["A Kernel Language for Abstract Data Types and Modules", R. M. Burstall & B. Lampson, in Semantics of Data Types, LNCS 173, Springer 1984].
5. a small smooth rounded rock
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