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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A finite sequence of terms.
2. 2
   A single row in a relational database.
3. 3
   A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.
4. 4
   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."

Synonyms

All synonyms

-plen tuplen-tupleple

Example

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

Etymology

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

Related phrases

data typeordered pairrelational database

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