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tuple - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A generalization of ordered pairs, such as (-3, 4), and ordered triples, such as (0, -3, 5), in any dimension. An n-tuple is an ordered list of n numbers and can represent a point in n-dimensional space.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun set theory A
finite sequence ofterms . - noun computing A single
row in arelational database . - noun computing A
set of comma-separatedvalues passed to a program or operating system as aparameter to afunction call . - noun computing In some programming languages, a
data type which is similar but distinct from thelist data type, whose instances are characterized by having a rather fixedarity , and the elements of which instances can differ from each other by data type. (Note: this definition may overlap with the previous one.)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From -tuple, as in quintuple or sextuple.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From the ending of the words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus.
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Examples
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This also indicates that a tuple is a sequence as well.
A Byte of Python Swaroop, C. H. 2003
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Each cell member is identified as a tuple for each dimension in the cube.
BeyeNETWORK Content 2010
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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.
Planet Python 2009
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In this case a tuple is the only alternative as no pid is known.
Hiveminds Magazine 2009
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A tuple is a combination of members from different dimensions
Recently Uploaded Slideshows edarsoft 2009
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A tuple is a simple generic data structure that holds an ordered set of items of heterogeneous types.
ASP.NET Weblogs 2008
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In F#, the tuple is a fully supported data type and perhaps one of the most useful.
ASP.NET Weblogs 2008
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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.
dlebauer commented on the word tuple
definition:
an ordered list of variables, for example a row in a database
March 17, 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word tuple
A simple generic data structure that holds an ordered set of items of heterogeneous types. Morgan's Law of Attribution: One tuple is sufficient.
December 9, 2015