tuple

Etymology

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

noun

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

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