- n. set theory A finite sequence of terms. - n. computing A
single row in a relational database. - n. computing A set of
comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system
as a parameter to a function call. - n. computing In some
programming languages, a data type which 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.) - From the ending of the
words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus. (Wiktionary) “This
also indicates that a tuple is a sequence as well.” “Each cell
member is identified as a tuple for each dimension in the cube.”
“In this case a tuple is the only alternative as no pid is
known.” “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 corr