tuple
Etymology
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Etymology
From the ending of the words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus.
Pronunciation Nountuple (plural tuples)
- (set theory) A finite sequence of terms.
- Hyponyms: (n terms) n-tuple, (two terms) ordered pair, (three terms) triple, triplet
- (databases) A single row in a relational database.
- (computing) A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.
- (programming) A fixed-size container data type similar to a list that can hold different types of elements.
- Both Python and Haskell have a tuple data type as well as a list data type.
- Unlike lists, tuples are not formed by consing.
- German: Tupel
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