tuple

See also: -tuple

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːpəl, -ʌpəl

Noun

tuple (plural tuples)

1. (set theory) A finite sequence of terms.

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

2. (databases) A single row in a relational database.
3. (computing) A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.
4. (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.

Related terms

• -tuple
• tuplet

Translations

in set theory

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多元組 / 多元组 (duōyuánzǔ)

• Czech: uspořádaná n-tice f
• Finnish: monikko (fi)
• French: uplet (fr) m, n-uplet (fr) m
• Galician: tupla f
• German: Tupel (de) n
• Greek: πλειάδα (el) f (pleiáda)
• Italian: tupla f
• Japanese: 組 (ja) (くみ, kumi)
• Persian: رتبیک
• Polish: krotka f
• Portuguese: tupla f
• Russian: корте́ж (ru) m (kortɛ́ž)
• Serbo-Croatian: n-torka f
• Spanish: tupla
• Swedish: tupel (sv) c, tipel (sv) c
• Welsh: tŵpl m

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)
• Welsh: tŵpl m

set of values passed as a parameter

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

container data type

• German: Tupel (de) n
• Serbo-Croatian: n-torka f
• Welsh: tŵpl m

Anagrams

• let up, let-up, letup, plute