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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | TUPLE Toyohashi University Parallel Lisp Environment. A parallel Lisp based on KCL. ["Memory Management and Garbage Collection of an Extended Common Lisp System for Massively Parallel SIMD Architecture", Taiichi Yuasa, in Memory Management, IWMM92, Springer 1992, 490-507]. (1994-11-08) tuple In functional languages, a data object containing two or more components. Also known as a product type or pair, triple, quad, etc. Tuples of different sizes have different types, in contrast to lists where the type is independent of the length. The components of a tuple may be of different types whereas all elements of a list have the same type. Examples of tuples in Haskell notation are (1,2), ("Tuple",True), (w,(x,y),z). The degenerate tuple with zero components, written (), is known as the unit type since it has only one possible value which is also written (). The implementation of tuples in a language may be either "lifted" or not. If tuples are lifted then (bottom,bottom) /= bottom and the evaluation of a tuple may fail to terminate. E.g. in Haskell: f (x,y) = 1 --> f bottom = bottom f (bottom,bottom) = 1 With lifted tuples, a tuple pattern is refutable. Thus in Haskell, pattern matching on tuples is the same as pattern matching on types with multiple constructors ( algebraic data types) - the expression being matched is evaluated as far as the top level constructor, even though, in the case of tuples, there is only one possible constructor for a given type. If tuples are unlifted then (bottom, bottom) = bottom and evaluation of a tuple will never fail to terminate though any of the components may. E.g. in Miranda: f (x,y) = 1 --> f bottom = 1 f (bottom,bottom) = 1 Thus in Miranda, any object whose type is compatible with a tuple pattern is assumed to match at the top level without evaluation - it is an irrefutable pattern. This also applies to user defined data types with only one constructor. In Haskell, patterns can be made irrefutable by adding a "~" as in f ~(x,y) = 1. If tuple constructor functions were strict in all their arguments then (bottom,x) = (x,bottom) = bottom for any x so matching a refutable pattern would fail to terminate if any component was bottom. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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"TUPLE" is a common misspelling or typo for: duple, tale, tape, temple, tile, tipple, tope, topple, tulle, tupelo. |
Crosswords: TUPLE |
| Specialty definitions using "TUPLE": arity ♦ Cartesian product ♦ Hyperstrict ♦ K-tuple ♦ lifted domain, Linda, lump uncurrying ♦ Melinda ♦ quel ♦ struct ♦ tuple calculus, tuple identifier, Tuple Space Smalltalk ♦ uncurrying. (references) |
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| "TUPLE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "TUPLE" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.97% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
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Expressions using "TUPLE": passive tuple ♦ tuple calculus ♦ tuple identifier ♦ tuple Space Smalltalk. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TUPLE": K-tuple, n-tuple. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tuple | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "TUPLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tuple. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tupel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | monikko (plural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tuple, uplet, nuplet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tupel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλειάδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tupla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | upletay tuplo. (various references) кортеж (cortege, motorcade). (various references) n-upla pasiva (passive tuple), clave (cembalo, cipher, clef, code, crypt, cypher, harpsichord, key). (various references) tuppel, tupel, rad (circle, course, file, line, range, rank, row, sequence, set, streak, succession, tier, train, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | plexueris, pliadis, plus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "TUPLE": centuple, octuple, quintuple, septuple, sextuple. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TUPLE": centupled, centuples, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplets, octuplex, quintupled, quintuples, quintuplet, quintuplets, septupled, septuples, sextupled, sextuples, sextuplet, sextuplets. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: letup. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lept, lute, pelt, pule, tule. | |
-2 letters: let, leu, pet, pul, put, tel, tup. | |
-3 letters: el, et, pe, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: letups, penult, plutei, pullet, tupelo. | |
+2 letters: couplet, eelpout, epaulet, gluepot, octuple, opulent, outleap, outyelp, penults, plateau, plumate, plummet, pluteus, pollute, poulter, pullets, pulsate, pustule, spurtle, stipule, tupelos, upleapt. | |
+3 letters: centuple, copulate, couplets, cupulate, drupelet, eelpouts, epaulets, eucalypt, gluepots, gulpiest, lumpiest, multiped, multiple, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplex, outleaps, outleapt, outsleep, outslept, outspell, outspelt, outyelps, patulent, peculate, petalous, petulant, plateaus, plateaux, plateful, plectrum, pleuston, plumelet, plumiest, plummets, plumpest, plushest, polluted, polluter, pollutes, populate, postlude, poulters, poultice, preadult, pubertal, pulpiest, pulsated, pulsates, pulsejet, pulsojet, purplest, purulent, pustuled, pustules, resculpt, sculpted, septuple, sextuple, sextuply, spiteful, splutter, spurtles, stipuled, stipules, sulphate, sulphite, supplest, tumpline, unpolite, uplifted, uplifter, uptilted. | |
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