Tuple
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From the ending of the words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus.
Noun
- A finite sequence of terms; equivalently, an ordered set.
- 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.
Synonyms
- (in set theory): n-tuple (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)
Etymology
In Lojbanized spelling.
- Chinese: tuei — 腿 [tuǐ]
- English: leg — leg
- Spanish: piern — pierna
Gismu
- leg; x1 is a/the leg (body-part) of x2; (metaphor: supporting branch).