String of Pearls
Noun Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A sequence of individually small things that form a meaningful pattern when viewed together. In engineering slang, a string of pearls often describes scattered symptoms that reveal one underlying cause.
In plain English: A linked sequence of small things that together reveal a pattern.
Example: "Each timeout looked isolated until the team lined them up as a string of pearls and saw they all traced back to the same overloaded dependency."