tuple

Meaning

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 to 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.)

Related

Similar words

• (when the sequence contains n terms), ordered pair (when the sequence contains exactly two terms), triple or triplet (when the sequence contains exactly three terms)

Origin

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