tuple
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/tuːp(ə)l/
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Definitions
noun
- A finite sequence of terms.
- A single row in a relational database.
- A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.
- 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.)“Both Python and Haskell have a tuple data type as well as a list data type.”
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