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Wiktionary

  1. n. set theory A finite sequence of terms.
  2. n. computing A single row in a relational database.
  3. n. computing A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.
  4. n. computing In some programming languages, a data type which 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.)

Etymologies

  1. From the ending of the words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus. (Wiktionary)

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  • “This also indicates that a tuple is a sequence as well.”

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  • “Each cell member is identified as a tuple for each dimension in the cube.”

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  • “In this case a tuple is the only alternative as no pid is known.”

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  • “I'm not sure how New York could have 7180000 and half of inhabitants, but if this were the case then the type of the tuple string * int anymore and would instead be float, as the type inference would correctly deduce that the second element of the tuple is a floating-point number.”

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  • “Pattern matching can be used only for determining run-time properties of values; the number of elements in a tuple is specified by the type of the tuple, which is checked at compile time.”

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  • “Unless we need an empty tuple, that is, in which case the parentheses are required.”

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  • “A tuple is a combination of members from different dimensions”

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  • “A tuple is a simple generic data structure that holds an ordered set of items of heterogeneous types.”

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  • “In F#, the tuple is a fully supported data type and perhaps one of the most useful.”

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  • “In this article, we'll look at the simplest functional data structure, a 'tuple' and we'll use it to demonstrate how we can work with immutable data types.”

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synonyms (13)

Words with the same meaning

  1. or
  2. terms
  1. n
  2. contains
  1. the
  2. exactly
  1. two
  2. sequence
  1. triple
  2. when
  1. ''n''-tuple
  2. triplet
  1. ordered pair

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  3. cacodylate
  1. referenced
  2. resuspension
  3. undeclared
  1. first-out
  2. off-screen
  3. biometric
  1. solubilization

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  • dlebauer definition:
    an ordered list of variables, for example a row in a database Mar 17, 2010

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