tuple
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How tuple fits the hive
Base Score
5
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
5
E L P T U
Two-Letter Start
TU
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Ending
LE
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- 5 letters
- 5 unique letters
- TU start
- LE ending
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
A finite sequence of terms.
noun
A single row in a relational database.
noun
A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.
noun
In some programming languages, a data type that 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.)
"Both Python and Haskell have a tuple data type as well as a list data type."
Related Words
Same Letters
- pullet
- letup
Synonyms
- ntuple
- orderedpair
- triple
- triplet