tuple

See also:-tuple

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈtʊpəl/,/ˈt͡ʃuːpəl/,/ˈtjuːpəl/,/ˈtʌpəl/
• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈtuːpəl/,/ˈtʌpəl/
• Rhymes:-uːpəl,-ʌpəl

Noun

tuple(pluraltuples)

1. (set theory)Afinitesequenceofterms.

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

2. (databases)A singlerowin arelational database.
3. (computing)Asetof comma-separatedvaluespassed to a program or operating system as aparameterto afunctioncall.
4. (programming)A fixed-size containerdata typesimilar to alistthat can hold different types of elements.

   Both Python and Haskell have atupledata type as well as a list data type.

   Unlike lists,tuplesare not formed byconsing.

Related terms

• -tuple
• tuplet

Translations

in set theory

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Đa nguyên tổ／Đa nguyên tổ(duōyuánzǔ)

• Czech:uspořádaná n-ticef
• Finnish:monikko(fi)
• French:uplet(fr)m,n-uplet(fr)m
• Galician:tuplaf
• German:Tupel(de)n
• Greek:πλειάδα(el)f(pleiáda)
• Italian:tuplaf
• Japanese:Tổ(ja)(くみ, kumi)
• Persian:رتبیک(fa)
• Polish:krotkaf
• Portuguese:tuplaf
• Russian:корте́ж(ru)m(kortɛ́ž)
• Serbo-Croatian:n-torkaf
• Spanish:tupla
• Swedish:tupel(sv)c,tipel(sv)c

single row in a database

• Finnish:monikko(fi)
• German:Tupel(de)n
• Japanese:タプル(tapuru),Tổ(ja)(kumi)
• Polish:krotkaf
• 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

• Finnish:monikko(fi)
• French:n-uplet(fr)m
• Japanese:タプル(たぷる, tapuru)
• Polish:krotkaf
• Russian:корте́ж(ru)m(kortɛ́ž)

container data type

• German:Tupel(de)n
• Serbo-Croatian:n-torkaf

Anagrams

• let up,let-up,letup,plute