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Tuple

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, tuple means: An ordered group of values treated as one value, often allowing elements of different types in fixed positions.

In Turkish: demet

How it is used

Used in function return values, destructuring and typed data models. Its size and mutability rules depend on the language.

Example sentences

  1. The function returns a tuple containing the result and an error code.

  2. Destructure the tuple before passing the coordinates to the renderer.

Common collocations

  • return a tuple
  • tuple element
  • unpack a tuple
  • data structureA way of organizing data in memory, such as an array, list, tree or hash map, so that certain operations are fast and simple.
  • arrayAn ordered collection of items stored one after another, where each item can be reached by its position number, called an index.
  • returnTo end a function and send a value back to the code that called it, for example when a password check gives back true or false.

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