tuple

---

Etymology

From the ending of the words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus.

Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈtʊpəl/, /ˈt͡ʃuːpəl/, /ˈtjuːpəl/, /ˈtʌpəl/
• (America) IPA: /ˈtuːpəl/, /ˈtʌpəl/

Noun

tuple (plural tuples)

1. (set theory) A finite sequence of terms.

   Hyponyms: (n terms) n-tuple, (two terms) ordered pair, (three terms) triple, triplet

2. (databases) A single row in a relational database.
3. (computing) A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.
4. (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.

Related terms

• -tuple
• tuplet

Translations

• French: uplet, n-uplet
• German: Tupel
• Italian: tupla
• Portuguese: tupla
• Russian: корте́ж
• Spanish: tupla

Translations

• German: Tupel
• Russian: за́пись

Translations

• French: n-uplet
• Russian: корте́ж

Translations

• German: Tupel

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.001