tuple

See also: -tuple

English

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

tuple (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.

in set theory

single row in a database

Finnish: monikko (fi)
German: Tupel (de) n
Japanese: タプル (tapuru), 組 (ja) (kumi)
Polish: krotka f
Russian: за́пись (ru) f (zápisʹ) (record), ряд (ru) m (rjad) (row), корте́ж (ru) m (kortɛ́ž), строка́ (ru) f (stroká) (row)

set of values passed as a parameter

container data type

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