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tarballnoun
A ball of tar or crude oil found on a beach
All of us who have been to the beaches this year have encountered tarballs that stick to our feet and mess up our rugs. 1969, Hearings By United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
tarballnoun
A file that is an archive of several other files created using the Unix tar utility.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
tarball
[very common; prob. based on the “tar baby” in the Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive, created with the Unix tar(1) utility, containing myriad related files. “Here, I'll just ftp you a tarball of the whole project.” Tarballs have been the standard way to ship around source-code distributions since the mid-1980s; in retrospect it seems odd that this term did not enter common usage until the late 1990s.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tarball in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tarball in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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