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Meaning of tuple

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tuple

Pronunciation:/tuːp(ə)l/

noun

Definitions

  1. A finite sequence of terms.

  2. A single row in a relational database.

  3. A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.

  4. In some programming languages, a data type that is similar but distinct from the list data type, whose instances are characterized by having a rather fixed arity, and the elements of which instances can differ from each other by data type. (Note: this definition may overlap with the previous one.)

    Example: Both Python and Haskell have a tuple data type as well as a list data type.