(Combining form chiefly Mathematics) forming nouns and adjectives with a preceding algebraic symbol with the sense ‘(an entity or set) consisting of as many parts or elements as indicated by the symbol, such as 'n-tuple'
A row in a table is called a tuple of the relation The number of tuples in a relation is known as the cardinality of the relation Tuples in a table are unique and can be arranged in any order
In SML, this is a group of anonymous data values travelling together The word is a generalisation of the sequence: couple, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple etc
a set of values - In Python, a "tuple" is used to describe a set of two or more values which do not have to be of the same type Python 2 0 tuple members cannot receive direct assignment, but an easy workaround is to regenerate the set to incorporate a changed value Tuples are very useful for passing multiple values from one function to another in one step A good example is a Tkinter font tuple: 'Helvetica',10,'bold' for 10-point Helvetica Bold, where the face and style are of type text but the point size is of type integer
A storage unit in a relational database Each unit contains an ordered set of attribute values that are grouped together in 2-dimensional tables known as relations